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.Duncan Jones
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
Venus Williams -
I like to do the splits onstage.
Gavin DeGraw -
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Karen Salmansohn -
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
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.
Bartlett Sher
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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.
Page McConnell -
I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
Gail Porter -
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.
Quincy Jones -
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
Kate Winslet -
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama -
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.
Kai Ryssdal
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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.
Victor LaValle -
I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
Randy Travis -
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
Omar Bongo -
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.
Daniel Everett -
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
Sam Houston
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
Samuel Johnson -
A barrister's job is to put the case for the defence as effectively and clearly as would his client if he had an advocate's skills. The barrister's belief or disbelief in the truth of this story is irrelevant: it's for the jury to decide this often difficult question.
John Mortimer -
What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?
P. C. Cast -
I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.
Bob Kane -
Silence is a text easy to misread.
Alfred Angelo Attanasio -
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.
Duncan Jones