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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Melvin Brooks
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My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
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I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
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An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.
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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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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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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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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.
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I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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