Duncan Jones Quotes

I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

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• My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Day

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Positive

• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dog
  • End
  • Will

• The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Words
  • Question
  • Goal

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Singing
  • I Can
  • Means

• When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Listening

• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • World
  • Employer

• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everyone
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Great
  • School
  • Education

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Remember
  • Food
  • Lost

• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I believe clothing tell a story.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Believe
  • Story
  • I Believe

• On April 1, 1998, I launched Webmaster-Resources.com, and I remember that date specifically because it was the date that the price of a two-year domain name registration dropped from $100 to $70, and considering I was funding this out of my allowance, that $30 made all the difference.

  

  Matt Mickiewicz
  • Remember
  • April

• Originality is dangerous.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dangerous
  • Originality

• This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

  

  Jalal Talabani

• I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

  

  Leslie Nielsen
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Star

• I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

  

  William Steig
  • People
  • Age
  • Father

• I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Age
  • Star
  • German