Duncan Sheik Quotes
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I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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I want people to be able to give their voice.
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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
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Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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My English is actually getting worse. We talk Spanish at home and switch to English only when we need it. Like when we go to the bank to get some money.
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I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.
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As far as I'm concerned, what I do is not a crime, because I'm only making people laugh, ... So I'm only being naughty, like a naughty boy. Anything is open to streaking. As long as you perform it in the right way, in the right context.
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I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'
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If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.
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If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.
