Albert Brooks Quotes

The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch your life. I don't care who you are - if you committed a crime and you had to have all of your emails searched and made public, who on this planet could survive that? Nobody.

Albert Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeSurviveCareYouNobodyCrime

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Jerry Falwell

TemptationGardenHereBeenEden

A comprehended god is no god.

John Chrysostom

God

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

May Sinclair

MomentYourselfYouQuietExcitement

I'm good at being funny.

Tom Stoppard

FunnyGoodBeing FunnyBeing

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

Robert D. Kaplan

HistoryInterestingNewsImportant

The wealthiest can afford to pay more in taxes. That's a part of the deal. That makes sense. I don't know anyone that doesn't agree with that.

Ruth Porat

KnowMoreTaxesPayAgreeSense

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

RuPaul

LifePeopleGameStrategyYouWant

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

PoetryWaitingRoseWritingBook

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

Douglas Wood

VoiceFindMy OwnMoreProjectOwn

I can watch cartoons all day!

Dexter Darden

DayI CanWatchCartoonsAll Day

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.

Dee Dee Myers

PoliticalHelpLongTaxMortgage

Oddly enough, even though our show is structured around women, our target audience is women, I get more calls from men every night than women.

Delilah

WomenMenNightEnoughTargetMore

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