Albert Brooks Quotes
You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
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China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
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It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.
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Marvel makes you feel like 'Iron Man' will show up at your front door to kill you if you say the wrong thing.
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I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime.
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Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.
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As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.
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I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
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You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.
