Mel Brooks Quotes
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Women are sacred.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
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Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time.
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Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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The market we're going after is the clean-energy market.
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We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
