Mel Brooks Quotes
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
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In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
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Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small.
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'It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God’s goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.'
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Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. (1 July 1940)
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'Did you ever taste beer?' 'I had a sip of it once,' said the small servant. 'Here's a state of things!' cried Mr Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling. 'She never tasted it - it can't be tasted in a sip!'
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My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
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In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
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Rod's always been a keen sportsman, so he didn't live as excessive a life as some musicians.
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.
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I played baseball my entire life, up through college and everything, so working out and being physically active was always a huge part of my life. I'll spend at least a couple of hours in the gym a day.
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Lonestar: That's all we needed, a Druish Princess!
