Albert Brooks Quotes
I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
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My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
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How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?
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I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.
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I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.
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The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
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Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
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A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
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On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.
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You will quite often hear people say: 'Well look, she is the best man in politics,' and I say: 'Oh no, much better than that; she is the best woman.'
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The object of all true Philosophy is to frame a system which shall comprehend human life under every aspect, social as well as individual. It embraces, therefore, the three kinds of phenomena of which our life consists, Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions.
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Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.
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If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't.
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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
