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
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Music
  • Always
  • Thought

• 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
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Try
  • Gentleman
  • To Be

• 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
  • Music
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Difficult
  • Patience
  • Lie

• At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Lost
  • Present
  • Moment

• I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

  

  B. B. King
  • Singer
  • Blues
  • Kept

• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Down

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Beauty

• 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
  • Women
  • Always
  • Child

• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Good
  • Reality

• I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Thought
  • Writer
  • Tough

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

  

  Joey Bishop
  • She
  • Mother
  • Hollywood

• You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Me

• I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.' I loved the hidden, scary layers, but there wasn't that much around for youngsters in terms of horror books. I can remember reading Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot' and 'Cujo,' but I thought there should be more for teenaged horror fans.

  

  Darren Shan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Reading

• The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

  

  Beth Simone Noveck
  • Work
  • Together
  • Distance

• There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle.

  

  Emanuel Steward
  • Work
  • Great
  • Believe

• Work begets work.

  

  Brion James
  • Work