Mel Brooks Quotes
Sheriff Bart waking up a drunk Jim in jail: Are we awake?Jim 'The Waco Kid': We don't know. Are we black?Sheriff Bart: Yes we are.Jim 'The Waco Kid': Then we're awake, but we're very puzzled.Mel Brooks
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps -
Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Camille Paglia -
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
Ian Mckellen -
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
Dakota Blue Richards -
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre -
Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
Tahl Raz
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
Ice T -
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater -
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
Salman Rushdie -
I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
Nancy Pelosi -
Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
Aaron Sorkin
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
Edgar Wright -
Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
Patrick Kane -
What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
Jack Davenport -
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
Ian Mckellen -
If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
Oliver North -
How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?
Jay Kay Jamiroquai -
In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.
Q-Tip -
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
D. H. Lawrence -
I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.
Billy Eckstine -
Sheriff Bart waking up a drunk Jim in jail: Are we awake?Jim 'The Waco Kid': We don't know. Are we black?Sheriff Bart: Yes we are.Jim 'The Waco Kid': Then we're awake, but we're very puzzled.
Mel Brooks