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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.
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I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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