David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

David Bowie

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• It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Country
  • Living
  • Earn

• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Country
  • Learn

• The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• I was definitely very much a country boy.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Country Boy

• Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Country
  • Power

• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • War
  • Democracy

• The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Country
  • Opinion

• I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Know

• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Love

• I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Important
  • Country
  • Why

• Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• Balance your thoughts with action. - If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Done

• It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Thinking
  • Soul

• You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

  

  Harold Lloyd Jenkins
  • Music
  • Country

• First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Country
  • Sports
  • Color

• I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Country
  • Game
  • Beautiful

• I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs.

  

  Elle King
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Rock

• Before games, people ask whether I get nervous. To be honest, I don't get nervous, I just enjoy it. I am living the dream. When I was a kid I always wanted to play for my country and now I am here, I will enjoy it.

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• As a country, we must come together to provide the training, certifications, and jobs that our veterans have earned and deserve.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Country
  • Together
  • Training

• I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.

  

  William Styron
  • Thinking
  • Blessed
  • Healthy

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• Eli had a great game today; He took what was out there and didn't force anything. He doesn't get real excited; there is more than one way to lead a team … and he showed that today.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Great
  • Real
  • Today

• I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Western