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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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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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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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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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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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.
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Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.
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I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
