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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I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to be that anything is possible with hard work. It doesn't matter where you're from or what language you speak - as long as you work hard, you can achieve those goals.
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Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.
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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
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I wish we weren`t fighting all the time to protect women`s rights, to protect women`s health.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Work begets work.
