David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
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If you are explaining, you are losing.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.
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The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
