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 honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
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Good-quality protein is very hard to come by in prison. Tuna is good, but tuna doesn't have texture. Mackerel is meaty.
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No moral system can rest solely on authority.
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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.
