David Douglas Duncan Quotes

With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known.

David Douglas Duncan

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FearLookingSomeoneFar AwayAlmost

I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore.

Jessica White

PowerMyselfGivingGlowAnybody

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

John Milius

NothingMoreAlwaysFilmmakerThan

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

John Lydon

DisciplineIdeasSongYouKnowKind

As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.

Robert Sean Leonard

TheatreCircusKidAlwaysAwayLike

American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.

Siri Hustvedt

CultureMeIdeasShoppingAmerican

Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

Russell Means

DressPeopleMeDoingFindNew

I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.

Mats Sundin

SuccessPeopleThinkYouKnowWant

Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language.

Michio Kaku

PeopleSpeakRealityLanguageHelp

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

Michael Strahan

OpportunityTimeMyselfOpportunities

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

Moby

WorkGoodAloneMusiciansBadI Can

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!

Christa B. Allen

ChildhoodCrushTitanicJack

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Constance Wu

FeelLearnMessUpCarryHere

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