David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.
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Macho does not prove mucho.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
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you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.
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We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.
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What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.
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The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.
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I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
