Duncan Jones Quotes
It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.
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Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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Iraq is a country I came to know well and the place where I spent some of the most consequential years of my life.
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It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.
