Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel BrooksRead
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.
Interpretation
Embrace life with energy and enthusiasm, as it stands in stark contrast to death.
Mel Brooks emphasizes the importance of living life to the fullest, encouraging a vibrant and expressive attitude. By equating the vibrancy of life with noise and color, he suggests that a passive existence is akin to not truly living, urging everyone to engage actively with the world around them.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing new experiences.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
I’ve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don’t want that in my life.
The object of living is work, experience, happiness.
From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.
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