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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 No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
Aida TurturroAida Turturro The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides – Zarqawi and also the American troops at times.
Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
Agnes Meyer DriscollAgnes Meyer Driscoll And balancing motherhood and career makes you both a better mother and a better businesswoman.
Aerin LauderAerin Lauder I’ll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won’t go 12 rounds.
Adrien BronerAdrien Broner