Duncan Jones Quotes
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.
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In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
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Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.
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As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
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My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.
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'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else.
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Going out and volunteering sounds simple, but many people don't volunteer because they don't know where to start.
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Scientific testing can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
