Mel Brooks Quotes

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

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• For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
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• Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
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• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
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• I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

  

  AJ McLean
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• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Touch
  • Starts
  • Straw

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • You
  • Water
  • Trust

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Pilots

• When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Money
  • Woman
  • Fame

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • More
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• I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • School
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• I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Country
  • Proud
  • Attentions

• I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Friends
  • Most

• The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Hate

• Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do; Eek for to winne love in sondry ages, In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Men
  • Wonder

• No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enemy
  • Fate
  • Blamed

• If it's needed for me to have a drop of Filipino blood, I am willing to get it from Makati Med. My heart really belongs here.

  

  Daniel Matsunaga
  • Blood
  • Needed
  • Willing

• We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Fulfill

• If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • God
  • Fly