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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
Yves Saint LaurentYves Saint Laurent The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
Alan KingAlan King The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.
Alain JuppeAlain Juppe