Albert Brooks Quotes
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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I'm real connected with Australia, you heard? I gotta come up there, man.
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I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all across Canada, many in the United States, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan - but not England.
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All men of action are dreamers.
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You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
