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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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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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 had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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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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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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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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The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.
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I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way.
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North Korea is not irrational, and nothing shows this better than its continuing survival against all odds. North Korea is essentially a political living fossil, a relic of an era long gone.
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I just don't like being overweight.
