Duncan Jones Quotes

I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.

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• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Love
  • Think
  • Start

• Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Corruption
  • Test

• I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Way

• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • Community
  • Respect

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Bad
  • You
  • Look

• Sometimes you have to understand your place.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Understand

• And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Women
  • Think
  • Comedy

• I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Beautiful
  • Value
  • New

• Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Best
  • Try

• I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Creativity

• I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Admire

• If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Look
  • Talking

• The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Government
  • Rights

• Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • More
  • Through

• My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Understand
  • Affairs
  • Cup Of Tea

• They would make this war, she thinks, if there were not a war already made for them to make.

  

  Amal El-Mohtar
  • War
  • Made
  • Them

• Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.

  

  Len Buckeridge
  • Trying
  • Stop

• Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • City

• I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Music
  • Travel
  • Blue

• I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.

  

  Duncan Jones