David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.
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I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
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The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.
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It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
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It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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Studies show that over 80 percent of Americans do not have their dream job. If more knew how to build organizations that inspire, we could live in a world in which that statistic was the reverse - a world in which over 80 percent of people loved their jobs. People who love going to work are more productive and more creative. They go home happier and have happier families. They treat their colleagues and clients and customers better. Inspired employees make for stronger companies and stronger economies.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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The media is either our salvation or our death.
