David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!
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I have an Oscar on my mantel.
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
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No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
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The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.
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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
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I really want to dive in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay in California. I hear it's like floating through a forest.
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We see nothing truly till we understand it.
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.
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Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.
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I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
