Albert Brooks Quotes
Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.
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I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
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Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
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The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
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The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.
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I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.
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The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.
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It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
