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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The years teach much which the days never know.
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If you are explaining, you are losing.
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
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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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When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.
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Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.
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I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
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I think a lot of moms get really scared that if they have a nanny that somehow the child is going to love them less and attach more to the nanny. But, I haven't had that fear.
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I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then?
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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.
