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.

Albert Brooks

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• You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • You
  • Friend
  • Hug

• I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Message

• 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.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Dance
  • Listening
  • Quiet

• You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Always
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Risk

• My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Simple

• I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Dark
  • Movies
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • See
  • Innocent

• 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.'

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Done
  • Success
  • Failure

• 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?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Security
  • Grow
  • Debt

• 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.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Time
  • Greatest

• I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Trying
  • Lost
  • Find

• The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Christian
  • Redemption

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Vision
  • Actor
  • Director

• On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Low

• 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.'

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • She

• 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.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Life
  • True
  • Thoughts

• Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • Sad
  • Cold

• Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Church
  • Silent
  • Poem

• That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.

  

  Ed Markey
  • American
  • Hand
  • President

• If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Feels
  • Right
  • Clothes

• What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Struggle
  • Souls
  • Take Care

• 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.

  

  Albert Brooks