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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I'm glad I was a teacher.
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Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.” My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you’re not a lady? she says.
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Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We're very alike; it's not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it's just that he was born 10 years later... he's a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
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I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful' … So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like?
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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.
