Mel Brooks Quotes
Dark Helmet : So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.Mel Brooks
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
Harlan Coben -
I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
Kate Winslet -
There's nothing unnatural in creation.
Wadada Leo Smith -
Women are not all single-issue voters.
Carly Fiorina -
The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
Vanessa Redgrave -
I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
Naveen Jain
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
W. Averell Harriman -
One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
Jack Dee -
My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht -
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma -
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Oscar Levant
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov -
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
Ian Mckellen -
That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
Vanessa Hudgens -
In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
Edmund White -
But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
Jack Vance
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The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
Chen Shui-bian -
Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.
Anthony Mackie -
We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.
John Lanchester -
Dark Helmet : So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
Mel Brooks