Duncan Jones Quotes
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Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.
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I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
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God is only a great imaginative experience.
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In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
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When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
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The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.
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I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.
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Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.
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I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.
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You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.
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I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.
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A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we're an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it's their channel to control their entertainment to their fans.
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Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
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I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.
