Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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.
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