David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I just tried everything out - I mean, everything. Even my sexual orientation; I was just searching for what I really wanted. And I didn't quite know.

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• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner
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  • Point
  • Move

• Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

  

  Otto Schily
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  • Journalism

• The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
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  • Scary
  • Horror

• I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Kind
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  • Signature

• I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Game
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  • Bragging

• The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

  

  John Travolta
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  • Promise
  • Things Change

• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  

  Hans Kung
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  • Bible

• I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Trying
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  • Challenges

• I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Respect
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• There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The people are only tools, a means used by God. But they are not the sourse of help, aid, or salvation of any kind. Only God is. The people cannot even create the wing of a fly (Quran, 22:73).

  

  Yasmin Zarine Shahmir
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • College

• Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at the gym, and also because of how much my family supported me and sacrificed their dreams for mine. It also means a lot to me, knowing that I became the first African American to win the individual all-around gold medal.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Work
  • Family
  • American

• I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • War
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  • Eras

• Asia is rising economically - and is thirsty for oil. The price pressures on oil and oil price shocks, due to Asia's economic rise, mean that all steps made now to reduce oil dependence will protect us from pain and volatility later.

  

  Van Jones
  • Pain
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  • Oil

• There's no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone you don't know about something that means the world to you.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • World
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  • Conversation

• I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • People
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  • Sometimes

• Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Prison
  • Families
  • Ignorant

• We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Artist
  • Writer
  • Deceived

• I just tried everything out - I mean, everything. Even my sexual orientation; I was just searching for what I really wanted. And I didn't quite know.

  

  David Bowie
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