David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.
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What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.
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A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.
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If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?
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We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.
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There are no prizes for average performance.
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It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
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If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.
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I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
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The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.
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Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.
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Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.
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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
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Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.
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I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies.
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Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.
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It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself.
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In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.
