Mel Brooks Quotes
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
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I think 'The Shining' is one of the first horror movies I remember seeing.
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I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!
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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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Desine qua propter novitate exterritus ipsaexpuere ex animo rationem, sed magis acriiudicio perpende, et si tibi vera videntur,dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra.
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Como las paga el vulgo, es justohablarle en necio para darle gusto.
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Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
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The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
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It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
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Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.
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I use to be panicked, but know I'm curious!
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We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us.
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I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.
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It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
