Duncan Jones Quotes

I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.

Duncan Jones

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• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
  • Pressure

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lights

• I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Answer
  • Take
  • Fighter

• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Me
  • Trouble

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Guy
  • You
  • Play

• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Man
  • End

• It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Different
  • Morning

• If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Times
  • Fail
  • Himself

• In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Man
  • Woman

• I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • World
  • Great
  • Moments

• Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • War
  • Military

• Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• We propose first to expand credit in order to create demand. That new and greater demand must, of course, be met by a new and greater supply of goods, or all the evils of inflation and price rise will result. Here our Socialist planning must enter in. We must see that more goods are forthcoming to meet the new demand.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Planning

• Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Eyes
  • Wise
  • Coffee

• Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Time
  • Show

• The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Winning
  • Honor
  • Summer

• As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • World

• With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Struggle

• And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mind

• I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.

  

  Duncan Jones