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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Mel Brooks

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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