Albert Brooks Quotes

The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.

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• I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

  

  Zak Orth
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• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  

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• I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

  

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• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

  

  Larry Page
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• My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

  

  Mac Thornberry
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• India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

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• Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

  

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• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
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• I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

  

  Yossi Sarid
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• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

  

  Christopher Morley
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• For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

  

  James T. Walsh
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• The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

  

  David Fincher
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• I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
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• The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.

  

  Albert Brooks
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