Brion James Quotes
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
Washed Out -
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Karl Jaspers -
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. King
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
Adam Lamberg -
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Naguib Mahfouz -
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter Benjamin -
I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
Foxy Brown -
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Abraham Cahan
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
Sam Shepard -
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie -
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung -
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
K. V. Thomas -
Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
Vince Lombardi -
At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.
Aristotle -
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
Irving Babbitt -
Work begets work.
Brion James