Albert Brooks Quotes

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

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• I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

  

  Gail Porter
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• I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

  

  Owen Paterson
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• I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
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• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  

  Uri Geller
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• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
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• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
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• I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.

  

  Ram Charan
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• I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
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• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.

  

  Tali Lennox
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• We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

  

  Ted Yoho
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• I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

  

  Gary Numan
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• I almost turned down '8 Mile.' I was due to start 'ER,' and I learned they really wanted me to be in '8 Mile.' I didn't know Eminem; I just knew he was a rapper and saw what everyone else saw in the media. I thought they were just trying to capitalize on his popularity.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
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• The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple techniques. You start with great bread, a well-cured ham and a sharp local cheese, and the rest is easy. A little butter in a pan and a little patience - in the end you'll have a sandwich that is at once comforting and delicious.

  

  Daniel Humm
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• I didn't start my label out of a business perspective. I did it because I wanted to create a platform where new musicians can have the chance to get into a studio, work with each other, and get their music noticed by a large audience.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
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• The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

  

  Freya Stark
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• Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

  

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