David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  

  Harold Coffin
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• I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

  

  Yancy Butler
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• I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

  

  Dane Cook
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• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  

  Randy Newman
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• When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

  

  K. D. Lang
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• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
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• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
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• Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
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• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
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• I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
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• We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

  

  Edgar Winter
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• But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

  

  J. L. Austin
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• Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• My hope is that we're going to be more strategic and focused as we look for a way to address the long-term deficit and debt issues that are affecting this nation.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
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• I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

  

  Donna Mills

• I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

  

  Carly Patterson
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• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
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• Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.

  

  David Dobkin
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• A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

  

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