Duncan Sheik Quotes
So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.
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[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.
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The first 12 bars of 'Pre-Occupied' explains my entire career.
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So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
