Duncan Jones Quotes

Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.

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• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

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• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  

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• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

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• I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.

  

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• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
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• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
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• I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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• For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • College
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• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
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• Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

  

  Larry David
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• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
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• I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• I want to create a space that moves people. It doesn't matter if it is a house, or a museum, or whatever. So, it is somebody sitting on that lawn, just going around and around and feeling really happy. That is something that I'm striving for.

  

  Tadao Ando
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• Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.

  

  Mark Frost

• Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

  

  Douglas Hofstadter
  • People
  • Believe
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• Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Dad