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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.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
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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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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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