Duncan Sheik Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
-
I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
-
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
-
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
-
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
-
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
-
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
-
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
-
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
-
I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-
We've never been anti-Semitic.
-
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
-
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
-
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
-
I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
-
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
-
If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
-
My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
-
I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
-
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
-
My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.
-
I privilege the music over the lyrics.
