#si

The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

#being #decisions #ethically #everybody #everything

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it. ↗

— Albert Brooks

#comfortably #die #dog #hot #hot dog

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#logical #place #ride #saddle #side

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language. ↗

— Albert Brooks

#comedy #even #friendly #language #least

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#american #american values #book #culture #demonstrate

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#failure #feel #life #more #over

Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here. ↗

— Avery Brooks

#about #behave #blood #changes #effort

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#could #expression #fighting #halls #housing

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys. ↗

— Bryan Brown

#america #aussie #bum #come #go

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#go #job #most #out #people