Albert Brooks Quotes
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.
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I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.
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With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.
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My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
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Kant ... stated that he had 'found it necessary to deny knowledge … to make room for faith,' but all he had 'denied' was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.
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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! (Chapter 48 - 'At Encinitas In California')
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When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution. – page 120.
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The Destiny of EarthseedIs to take root among the stars.
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I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.
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Every day, I want to learn something new; I want to move up.
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Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
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What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
