Duncan Jones Quotes

My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

Duncan Jones

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• I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • You
  • Talent
  • Just

• I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Brain

• We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Australia

• I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Understand
  • Blues

• There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Someone
  • Impression

• I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • People
  • Love
  • Today

• This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • True
  • Give

• Sex is emotion in motion.

  

  Mae West
  • Sex
  • Emotion
  • Motion

• This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

  

  Earl Browder
  • World
  • Power
  • Growth

• The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Europe
  • Nationalism
  • Turkey

• Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Vote
  • Genre
  • Dislike

• My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Inspiration

• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Playing
  • Not Interested

• When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Picture
  • Back
  • Well

• Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Black

• We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experience, because he himself re-creates them.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Nature

• The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

  

  James Hillman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Good
  • Important
  • Long

• Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

  

  Bernard Barton
  • Earth
  • Feeling
  • Small

• In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

  

  Leon Panetta

• My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

  

  Duncan Jones