Albert Brooks Quotes

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

Albert Brooks

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• My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Think
  • Future
  • Schedule

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Stage

• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Mind
  • Age

• Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Future
  • Community
  • Now

• I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Future
  • City

• We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Government

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Future
  • Present
  • More

• Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Future
  • Growth
  • India

• I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Sex

• Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Situation
  • Saying

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Create

• I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Funny

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• In 'Sidney's Comet,' thanks to all the consumerism, all the garbage had to be put in deep space, even though we're not supposed to litter the cosmos - that was an environmental message. Although it was funny, it had an important message.

  

  Brian Herbert
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Space

• I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Time
  • Music
  • Funny

• It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Funny
  • Tired

• I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they're mad. Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Mad
  • Nasty

• The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got - like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Up
  • Drug

• I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Future
  • Funny