Albert Brooks Quotes
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'
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Obama White House rescued the economy from the worst recession.
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He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult-to begin a war and to end it.
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The Germans always had difficulties with their identity. Either it was too much and too loud, or it was hidden and too subservient. The French always had a healthy self-confidence. When they spoke of a 'grande nation' it was not dangerous. De Gaulle could say on Martinique: 'Behind me is the ocean. In front of me is France'.
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Schumann is the most representative musical figure of central European Romanticism as much because of his limitations as because of his genius: in his finest works, indeed, he exploited these limitations in such a way that they gave a force to his genius that no other contemporary could attain.
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It's always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.
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No longer do companies study consumers' psyches only by asking people what they think about technology and how they use it. Now they conduct observational research, dispatching anthropologists to employ their ethnographic skills by interviewing, watching and videotaping consumers in their natural habitats.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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I never wanted to be a director.
