Albert Brooks Quotes
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school. I remember that I returned home from the hospital and there was a bicycle waiting for me in front of the house, a yellow and red bicycle with a big banana seat on it. This was 1980, and it's still my favorite bike.
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I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.
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The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.
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You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces.
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I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.
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I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
