David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I try to do my best.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.
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I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.
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The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
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Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
