David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

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• The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

  

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• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

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• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

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• I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.

  

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• Cyber terrorists are no different from other terrorists: No matter where they hide, we will track them down and seek to bring them to the United States to face justice.

  

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• As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

  

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• Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.

  

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• I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

  

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• I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.

  

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• There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

  

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• I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

  

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• With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

  

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• I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

  

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• In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.

  

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• I'm uncomfortable publicizing myself as a model. I can only say over and over again, 'That's what I do,' and let people make fun of me.

  

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• I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

  

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• Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.

  

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• There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.

  

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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

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• I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.

  

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• I'm an utterly average, total geek.

  

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• I am of the firm view that there is no impediment to me competing in athletics competitions.

  

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• I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Different
  • Agendas