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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I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.
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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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It's sapiens to be homo.
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The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.
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It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.
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Eliminating herself was a sort of aesthetic project. One can't go on anymore, she said, electronics seems so clean and yet it dirties, dirties tremendously, and it obliges you to leave traces of yourself everywhere as if you were shitting and peeing on yourself continuously: I want to leave nothing, my favorite key is the one that deletes.
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I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.
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Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.
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I never wanted to be a director.
