Clarence Day Quotes
If you don't go to other men's funerals,' he told Father stiffly, 'they won't go to yours.'
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
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I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
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DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.
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If you don't go to other men's funerals,' he told Father stiffly, 'they won't go to yours.'
