Duncan Sheik Quotes

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that.

Duncan Sheik

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• The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Broken
  • Cause
  • Themselves

• I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Lifestyle

• My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Done
  • She
  • Daughter

• I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Amazing

• I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Years
  • Short

• Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • People
  • Brilliant
  • Helped

• I studied drama.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Drama
  • Studied

• I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Perspective
  • Upside Down

• When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Sell
  • Your
  • IQ

• The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Leader
  • Conflict

• I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Enjoy
  • Pressure
  • Direction

• Tiggers don't like honey.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Like
  • Honey

• There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Person
  • Famous
  • Parent

• Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Politics
  • Smart

• Don't bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Gold

• Who was the role model, the living example of what the est Training could do? Who else but Werner Erhard, a man some of his employees say, thought of himself, as god.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • God
  • Training
  • Model

• Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Work

• I really love Paul Smith. And Chrome Hearts. They make the most beautiful, high-end leather and outerwear and jewelry you've ever seen.

  

  Dean Winters
  • High
  • Beautiful
  • Jewelry

• I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious reasons: because they were people who were basically oriented in the direction of the established method of not confronting the power structure, but trying to elicit concessions by various and sundry means of, well, let's call it accommodating leadership.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Doubt
  • I Think
  • One Thing

• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Motivational
  • Aim
  • Mark

• Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that.

  

  Duncan Sheik