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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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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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.' It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.
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Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.
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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.
