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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• We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
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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!

  

  H. Rap Brown
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• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

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

  

  Natasha Leggero
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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.

  

  Samuel Fuller
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• Black is not a color.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Black
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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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  • Short

• 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.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
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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
  • America
  • Hope
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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.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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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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  • Shadow

• 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
  • Death
  • Black
  • Star

• 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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• When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.

  

  Angie Thomas
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  • Black

• Maybe in the world of BoJack, physical attraction is sort of different, beauty standards are different from our world because, why not? It's just more fun to have a sexy chameleon or a blue-tongued skink or whatever. I don't know how subversive that is, but it's fun for me.

  

  Lisa Hanawalt
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• I have listened to you, to our people. I have heard your doubts, your anxieties, nay, outright opposition to the lifting of Martial Law. And I have prayed to the Almighty for guidance. And it is after deliberate, sober judgment and soul-searching that I come before you and say, it is now time to terminate martial law.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
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  • Soul

• I'm going to work on food culture and help food become fun and part of peoples' lives again. The traditional restaurant is more commercial-oriented. But I want community through food.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Work
  • Help
  • Fun

• One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • People
  • Different

• 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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