Duncan Jones Quotes
My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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Do you realize sufficiently what it means to rule-to rule in a secret society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the populace, but over the best of men, over men of all ranks, nations, and religions, to rule without external force, to unite them indissolubly, to breathe one spirit and soul into them, men distributed over all parts of the world?
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This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.
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For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
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Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
