David Duffield Quotes
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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I'm just basically a workaholic.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
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Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.
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I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.
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If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
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I'm too young to play lawyers. But I've been really lucky because I never got labeled. I never did the John Hughes thing. I did adult movies. I'm not bragging or anything, but I think that I've chosen really good roles. I've played different people and showed that I have a little bit of range.
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I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style.
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I've become really good friends with Ringo and he also has expressed admiration for the first album and the drumming on the first album. I remember back in the day, Bruce our drummer met him and he asked for Knack buttons for his kids. So, it was pretty cool.
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I just don't like being overweight.
