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Mel Brooks57 quotes“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks He who hesitates is poor.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks 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.
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I managed to cut myself loose and while there was pain – there weren’t any blood.
Jenny WinbladhJenny Winbladh Free will exist only in a confused mind.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland If you are true to yourself, you are already a winner.
Alex DanielAlex Daniel You deserve words that remind you of your value.
Saif Ali ManganSaif Ali Mangan Do always wonder about your worth and remind yourself that even roses have their own thorns.
Megan LaoMegan Lao I’m like sugar in the coffee. Stir me and I’ll dissolve into you.
BelaBela Plans have changed. Life looks different. & now we’re all figuring it out as we go.
Tanya GillTanya Gill Be loyal to those loyal to you.
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud I’m totally not against plastic surgery. I’ve tried Botox before. That’s the only thing that I’ve done.
Kim KardashianKim Kardashian The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
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