Mel Brooks Quotes

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
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• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
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• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
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• Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  

  Warren Buffett
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• Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.

  

  Faye Resnick
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• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

  

  K. D. Lang
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• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
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• My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
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• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
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• I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

  

  Karl von Frisch
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• Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth, after all, that sets us free.

  

  John F. Kerry
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• To truly care about this country is to demonstrate that you care about her politics the same when you're winning as when you're losing.

  

  Jason Kander
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• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

  

  Alec Guinness
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  • Actor
  • Ego

• I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.

  

  Alexander McQueen
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• My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.

  

  Angus Deaton
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• Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

  

  Mel Brooks
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