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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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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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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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.
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From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
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I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
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In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
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Work begets work.
