Mel Brooks Quotes
Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.
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I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.
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The hand is man's most valuable servant; its dexterity enables it to respond to his slightest bidding.
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
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I'm primarily a character actress.
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Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.
