David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish and lots of mascara and black eye shadow, and he was so mysterious. It was this androgynous thing I found absolutely fascinating.

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• The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

  

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• You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

  

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• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  

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• Black is not a color.

  

  Edouard Manet
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• I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

  

  Fairuza Balk
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• I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

  

  Gary Coleman
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• It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.

  

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• I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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• Tupac has always been somebody who represented a higher consciousness of what it means on both sides of the coin to be black in America. He and Prince were leaders who moved to the beat of their own drum, and I can only hope to follow in their footsteps.

  

  Kat Graham
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• The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.

  

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• I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

  

  E. B. White
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• Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

  

  Jeff Bridges
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• A lot of times when I'm not at work I like to let my face breath and not put makeup on.

  

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• The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.

  

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• Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.

  

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• We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.'

  

  Kamala Harris
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• Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish and lots of mascara and black eye shadow, and he was so mysterious. It was this androgynous thing I found absolutely fascinating.

  

  David Bowie
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  • Makeup