Albert Brooks Quotes

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Albert Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1947

Topics

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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jesse Jackson

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A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

Andrzej Wajda

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I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.

Andrea Bocelli

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Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better.

Melissa McCarthy

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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

Matthew Desmond

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The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.

Jeffrey Kluger

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You'll hear people say now, 'Oh, I don't want to see something in 3-D. That's wrong, because what they've seen is 3-D done poorly.

Michael Bay

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When my mother read 'The Joy Luck Club', she was always complaining to me how she had to tell her friends that, no, she was not the mother or any of the mothers in the book.

Amy Tan

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Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.

Steve Wozniak

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I was at Woodstock. In the mud.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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I'm sure all parents think their kids are funny, and I'm sure a lot of kids are, whether their parents are comics or not.

Julia Davis

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I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.

Chellie Pingree

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