Albert Brooks Quotes

There are a few giant companies that I love, and I love Amazon. Their customer service is impeccable: sometimes, just for the hell of it, I'll sleep on a mattress for three years and return it.

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• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Value

• I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Television

• I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Learn

• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Own
  • Tragedy
  • September

• The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Collage

• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Politics

• Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Need

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Like
  • Movement
  • Dirt

• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Change
  • Doing

• People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Deep
  • Humor

• Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Different
  • Need
  • Own

• Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Success
  • Dream

• Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • You
  • Someone
  • Again

• There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Happiness

• Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Career
  • Poetry
  • Acting

• Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Different
  • Same

• Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Good
  • Dream

• Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.

  

  Elton Welsby
  • Today
  • Football

• The Federal Communications Commission licensed satellite radio to be a national-only radio service.

  

  Gene Green
  • Service

• ...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• There are a few giant companies that I love, and I love Amazon. Their customer service is impeccable: sometimes, just for the hell of it, I'll sleep on a mattress for three years and return it.

  

  Albert Brooks
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  • Service