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.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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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.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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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.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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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.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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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.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
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You don’t find time for important things, you make it.
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People are living vicariously through others, to be sure. As much as they hate it ... they get to live that through seeing it.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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Work begets work.
