Albert Brooks Quotes
If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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From caring comes courage.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.
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I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends-leave all in order;To port and hawser's tie no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!
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Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
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Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines
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When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.
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To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.
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I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.
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I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost.
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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
