David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.
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I have to have coffee in the morning.
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'Do you promise you won't hurt me?' asked Arthur. 'You will be safe from all harm for the space of a quarter hour, as measured by this clock,' replied the Old One. 'You are mortal enough that I would not slay you like a wandering cockroach, or a Denizen of the House.' 'Thanks,' said Arthur. 'I think.'
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The Ramans do everything in threes.
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Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.
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My sister basically showed me how to be a person for many years of my life. I just didn't really fit anywhere, and my sister was always really comfortable in who she was.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
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The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.
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You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
