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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • California
  • Brotherhood

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • She
  • Help

• The Destiny of EarthseedIs to take root among the stars.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Destiny

• I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Dog
  • Irish

• I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Women
  • Lesbian

• We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

  

  James Freeman Clarke
  • Life

• I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Air

• Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Company
  • Development

• Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

  

  Arthur Leonard Schawlow
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Dirty

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

  

  Albert Brooks