Albert Brooks Quotes

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

Albert Brooks

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• My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Think
  • You
  • Stop

• Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Black
  • White
  • Unemployment

• 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.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • School
  • Focus

• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Children
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Money
  • Me
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Time
  • School
  • History

• I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Live
  • Israel
  • Hatred

• 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.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Business
  • Succeed

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• 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.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Learn
  • Acting
  • Research

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • True
  • Strong

• My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • She
  • True
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• 美国垄断资本集团如果坚持推行它的侵略政策和战争政策，势必有一天要被全世界人民处以刑。其他美国帮凶也将是这样。

  

  Mao Zedong

• Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! (Chapter 48 - 'At Encinitas In California')

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • California
  • Brotherhood

• If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.

  

  James Woods
  • Business

• The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Joy
  • Morning
  • Virtue

• I believe that nuclear needs to be a part of the solution if the U.S. really wants to be aggressive about reducing carbon.

  

  Lynn Good
  • Believe

• Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Shapes
  • Historian
  • Select

• The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the storyline that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step towards transforming your experience of the world.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • World
  • Experience

• Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

  

  Albert Brooks