Albert Brooks Quotes

I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.

Albert Brooks

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• I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Mountains

• I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Thought
  • Wrong

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Lost

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Never

• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Worth
  • Lot

• 'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Means
  • Ambitious
  • Take Care

• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Mentor

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • God
  • Truth
  • True

• If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • People
  • Live
  • Government

• People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Need
  • Seem

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• Trust me, I know, you can make mistakes with money and still raise money-smart kids. You can start a new family tradition of handling money the right way.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Family
  • Money
  • Kids

• I love kids. But that's such a big commitment. And it seems long-term. It seems like a commitment that you have to stick with. And I just don't know if I can - it's too risky. Like, what if I don't like the kid?

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Commitment

• Death is the hardest question, and in an age that gives short shrift to the transmission of wisdom from old to young, it is not surprising that death is the single most obvious fact of life from which we constantly insulate our kids. We have, to our detriment, created a cult of denial about our own mortality. Life needs to be lived and prioritized with the understanding that it is limited.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Kids
  • Death
  • Wisdom

• I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Friends
  • Relationship
  • Hurts

• I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Parents