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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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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My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.
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Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.
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Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.
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Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you're trying to figure out the way we perceive the world and move through it, and that's what I like to learn.
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I know the trend I would love to bring back is floral. I think that it's just so much fun, whether it's with shoes or outfits or even pants.
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I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.
