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I'd love to do a Western.

Duncan Jones

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• And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Colors

• The life of an actor can be very enviable.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Very

• The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Country
  • Dream

• I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Doing

• At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Enjoy
  • Try
  • Bread

• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • May
  • Future
  • Man

• Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Broken

• I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Education
  • Works
  • Convinced

• Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Soul
  • Practice
  • Philosophy

• Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Lie

• I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Know
  • Wife
  • Beginning

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Strong

• I'm not designed to interact with society.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Society
  • Designed
  • Interact

• I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Life
  • Time
  • American

• Leo Ryan's life and his deeds are about a life that was so much more than Guyana. He was relentless in his search for answers, answers that were not readily available by just asking questions...We remember him today because his story is so much like those of most Americans; we want to believe the best and we sometimes hear the worst.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Remember

• Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,And guide my lonely wayTo where yon taper cheers the valeWith hospitable ray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Lonely

• Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

  

  Adam Smith

• The issue is a stone in the show.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Show
  • Issue
  • Stone

• The elementary self system in the brain stem and limbic system is massively activated when people are faced with the threat of annihilation, which results in an overwhelming sense of fear and terror accompanied by intense physiological arousal. To people who are reliving a trauma, nothing makes sense; they are trapped in a life-or-death situation, a state of paralyzing fear or blind rage. Mind and body are constantly aroused, as if they are in imminent danger.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Fear
  • Danger
  • Terror

• Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.

  

  Estelle
  • Trouble
  • Find You

• Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

  

  James Broughton
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Song

• The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke

• I'd love to do a Western.

  

  Duncan Jones