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Day Quotes

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

Robert Brault, American Author

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"Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it."

Chaim Weizmann, Israeli Leader

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"You know, it's always fun to play the bad guy at the end of the day."

Julian McMahon, Australian Actor

Day, End, Fun, Play

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"To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day."

Placido Domingo, Spanish Musician

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"Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song."

Joan Armatrading, St. Kittsian Musician

Day, Right, Song

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"Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro."

Luis Guzman, Puerto Rican Actor

Day, Months, Office

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"We should have a banquet on the day haters die."

Ovadia Yosef, Iraqi Clergyman

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"Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next."

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

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"I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day."

Ville Valo, Finnish Musician

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"I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement."

King Hussein I, Jordanian Statesman

Day, Enemy, Hurt, Past

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"Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps."

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini Statesman

Day, Freedom, Future

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"I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."

Larry King, American Entertainer

Day, Listening, Nothing, Will

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"We shred every day."

Fawn Hall, American Celebrity

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"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

Charlie Chaplin, English Actor

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"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."

Charles Ives, American Composer

Day, Heaven, May

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"Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording."

Bootsy Collins, American Musician

Day, Nothing, Road

"It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems."

Corin Nemec, American Actor

"I've signed a few sneakers in my day."

Ja Rule, American Musician

"I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera."

Lara Flynn Boyle, American Actress

"It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month."

Kathy Griffin, American Comedian

"Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't."

Jamie Lee Curtis, American Actress

"Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally."

Roger Daltrey, English Musician

"I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day."

Missy Elliot, American Musician

"No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day."

Ronnie Spector, American Musician

"I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day."

Bridget Fonda, American Actress

Day, Parents, Pretty

"The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me."

Maria Monk, Canadian Celebrity

"They say the camera never lies. It lies every day."

Cesar Romero, American Actor

"I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day."

Devon Sawa, Canadian Actor

"On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'."

Paul Merton, British Comedian

Day, First, Mind

"You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense."

John C. Reilly, American Actor

Day, Hollywood, Nonsense

"As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity."

Ernst Toller, German Playwright

Day, Heroes, Kings, Now

"We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can."

Shelley Duvall, American Actress

"I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to."

Tom Cruise, American Actor

Day, Pressure, Relax, Want

"I'm just looking to get through the day."

Peter Falk, American Actor

"At the day of judgment we shall all meet again."

George Whitefield, American Clergyman

"On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other."

Hugh Mackay, Australian Psychologist

Day, Talking, Television

"I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day."

Sean Bean, English Actor

Day, Focus, Play

"I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day."

Susan Anton, American Actress

"I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day."

Claire Danes, American Actress

Day, Identity, Years

"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."

Pat Metheny, American Musician

"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."

George Clooney, American Actor

"There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day."

Mackenzie Astin, American Actor

Day, May, Nothing, Project

"No where to go, and all day to get there."

John A. Simone, Sr., American Executive

Day, John A. Simone, Sr.

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."

Leonard Bernstein, American Composer

Day, Future, Infinite, Liberal

"I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up."

Dennis Wilson, American Musician

"The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before."

Pierre Salinger, American Public Servant

Day, President, Press, states

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."

Earl Nightingale, American Entertainer

Day, Emotion, Mind, Reality

"Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it."

Philip Seymour Hoffman, American Actor

Day, Desire, Fame

"I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away."

Heath Ledger, Australian Actor

"I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."

Judy Holliday, American Actress

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