Duncan Jones Quotes

I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.

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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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Water
  • Drinking
  • Key

• I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Model
  • inspirational

• Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Model
  • Library
  • Partner

• It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Nice
  • Always
  • See

• I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Record
  • Comfortable

• 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.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Good
  • You
  • Matter

• 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.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Talk
  • Almost
  • Idle

• My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wealth
  • Subject
  • Discussing

• Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Never
  • Say

• 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.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Think
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Care
  • Insurance

• When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Work
  • Results

• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Wine

• I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Friends
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Leadership
  • Management

• '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.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Live

• 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!

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Why
  • Wife
  • Christian

• Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • World
  • Great

• If you were asking me how it is to be a Muslim in America, it's much harder to be a North African in France than to be a foreigner here in America.

  

  Kenza Fourati
  • America

• If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • God
  • Done
  • Fun

• We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money to-to- !" Jesus said: "Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth."

  

  Eugenia Price
  • Money
  • Jesus
  • Race

• I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.

  

  Duncan Jones