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.

Albert Brooks

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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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Song

• Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • King
  • Sound

• 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.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growth

• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • America
  • Best
  • Failure

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I always had confidence in my game.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Always
  • Confidence

• 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.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Comedy
  • Reason
  • Sick

• 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.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Mistake
  • Just
  • Just Because

• Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • U.S.
  • Within
  • Insults

• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Power
  • Control
  • Government

• I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Think
  • More
  • Page

• A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Honest
  • Politician

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Company

• There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Done

• I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom to some extent, even if there is no wave of Scotland to become independent.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Life
  • Independent

• The future belongs to those who innovate.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Future
  • Innovate

• Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Albert Brooks