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

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

  

  L. Frank Baum
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• In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
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• As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

  

  Kenneth Langone
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• Mars was this water-based planet, and we know there was stable water on the surface for a long time, which is critical for life having a chance to develop.

  

  Ellen Stofan
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• It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Time
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  • Feeling

• Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Men
  • Long
  • Science

• In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

  

  Bill Dedman
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  • Chicago

• It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

  

  John Tillotson
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• Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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• You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

  

  Omar Khayyam
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• Who was the first man to look at a house full of objects and to immediately assess them only in terms of what he could trade them in for in the market likely to have been? Surely he can only have been a thief.

  

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

  

  David Bowie
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