Duncan Jones Quotes
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
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When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
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Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.
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I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.
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I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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'I think I prefer to be a Bear,' said Big Bru. 'I was born a Bear, and I know a Bear's ways. So I am satisfied to live as a Bear lives.'
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And when you are poor and have to carryThe Christian creed and wife and childrenAll on your back, it is too much!That's why I made the Elixir of Youth,Which landed me in the jail at PeoriaBranded a swindler and a crookBy the upright Federal Judge!
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
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You find me offensive? I find you offensive, for finding me offensive.
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And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the sceneHe's got a daytime job, he's doing alright.He can play the honky tonk like anything,Saving it up for Friday night.With the Sultans... with the Sultans of Swing.
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Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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I think Barnum is at the center of American culture. He's helping to invent what we now think of as pop culture. He invented pretty much our notions of the circus.
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I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.
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I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.
