"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
-Mel Brooks
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"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."
-Mel Brooks
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"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
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"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."
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"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, 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."
-Mel Brooks
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"A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance."
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present."
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"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
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"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
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"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."
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"To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
-Voltaire
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