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.
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I don't do negative things.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.
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I come from a non-musical family.
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My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.
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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.
