Albert Brooks Quotes
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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I love owning my masters.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
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Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.
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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
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There is no such thing as part freedom.
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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
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Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.
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Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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I never liked going in the ocean.
