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.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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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.
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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.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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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.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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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.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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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.
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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.
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Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
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If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.
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Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way.
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There is only good art and mediocre art.
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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.
