Duncan Jones Quotes

One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart.

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• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • College
  • Beginning
  • Summer

• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
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• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • See
  • Wait
  • Monarchy

• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Edgy

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Hard
  • Survival
  • Reasons

• A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Society
  • Support
  • Now

• Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Consciousness
  • Miracles

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Business
  • Book
  • Influence

• When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

  

  Jerry Doyle
  • Today
  • Community
  • Dad

• No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Heart
  • Hate

• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Like
  • Hero
  • See

• He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Heart
  • Believes

• One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Heart
  • Dad