David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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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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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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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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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
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I'm extremely proud. We talked this morning and everything he said he wanted this team to do, it's done. It's really amazing to see.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.
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What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?
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I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.
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They wanted me to be a Washington.
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I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
