Duncan Sheik Quotes

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

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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

• Fame for me is not external, it’s internal. So I’ve been famous for a long time.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Long
  • Famous

• Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Government
  • Organization

• If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Gleam

• To fall in love with someone who does not love you back, is the cruelest, most unforgiving heartache I have ever experienced.

  

  KB
  • Love
  • Falling
  • Experienced

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

  

  Duncan Sheik