Mel Brooks Quotes

Igor: My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up.

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• It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

  

  Earle Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Reflection

• I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Today
  • Government
  • Vote

• But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Process
  • Act
  • Scripture

• When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • People
  • Home
  • Happy

• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Healthy
  • Eating
  • Meat

• Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

  

  Ted Rall
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  • Job
  • Day

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Business
  • Think
  • Know

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Road
  • Creative
  • Process

• A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Losing

• My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Father
  • California
  • Rich

• I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'

  

  Carl Paladino
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• I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Everything
  • Starts
  • Daydream

• I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Change
  • Car
  • Oil

• When I began to write as a very young person in a rigidly racist and inhibited colonial society, I felt, as many others did, that I existed marginally on the edge of the world of ideas, of imagination and beauty. These, taking shape in poetry and fiction, drama, painting and sculpture, were exclusive to that distant realm known as 'overseas'.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • World
  • Society
  • Imagination

• I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real Talent

• Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Good
  • Space
  • Sex

• For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.

  

  Alex Graves
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Money

• Igor: My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up.

  

  Mel Brooks
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