Brian Day Quotes
I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own money on the health care of themself or a loved one.
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I've never been a partier.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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I was tested against the best.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.
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The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
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I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own money on the health care of themself or a loved one.
