Albert Brooks Quotes
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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John Boehner is a friend.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.'
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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If I saw my friend's boyfriend flirting with someone else, I would definitely talk to him about what I saw. I would want to give him a chance to explain. However, depending on how major the flirting was, I would probably mention it to my friend - just to let her know what's going on.
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
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I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
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I actually crashed the car I learned to drive on. It was a friend of mine's car.
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You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.
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I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.
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You see we're a country that talks about family values. But we haven't passed anything to help family values since the Family and Medical Leave Act. And the Family and Medical Leave Act was one of the first things I voted on when I came to Congress. It was very thrilling to me, because when my first child was born, I was terrified of being fired. When my second child was born, I was a member of the city council, and in some ways it was easier to respond to 250 constituents than it was to respond to one employer.
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I shall endeavor to turn dross to purest Metal Absolute: in short, to teach you something.
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My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
