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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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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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon.
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The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
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I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
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Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
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If you don't go to other men's funerals,' he told Father stiffly, 'they won't go to yours.'
