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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him! Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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