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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Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it's a bit of a fantasy, but it's a lovely idea that people make wonderful music and live a wonderful life being friends together. Sadly, life isn't quite like that.
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Languages and cultures are disappearing at an enormously fast rate, and many of them are in Canada. These are extreme examples of removal of freedom of expression - to actually lose a language and the ability to express that culture.
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I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.
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I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
