Duncan Jones Quotes

I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies.

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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  • You

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
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• Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
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• When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

  

  Walter F. Mondale
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• They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

  

  Rafael Correa
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  • Media

• The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

  

  Zola Budd
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• North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

  

  Barbara Demick
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• People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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  • Summer

• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  

  A. C. Benson
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  • Mind
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• I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.

  

  Ada Lovelace
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• A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.

  

  Patrick Roy
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• No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.

  

  Bruce Perens
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• Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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• Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

  

  John Naisbitt
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  • Intuition

• If there's anything I can't stand, it's the cliche of the female handler who's always talking through the radio with your player, telling you where to go and what to do with a sexy voice. It's such a horrible, horrible cliche. You just get so tired of it. It's like, is this all she's ever going to be?

  

  Chris Avellone
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• I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies.

  

  Duncan Jones
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