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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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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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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Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
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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.
