David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
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I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
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I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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I like anything that's edible.
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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I know that BMW is now a sponsor of the USOC - of the United States Olympic Committee - so they offer the use of their aerodynamic speed-tunnel for testing and such for the athletes, which is a great advantage. But to be honest with you, I'd rather have a free car!
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Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.
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We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
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He looked no different now than when I first met him (in January). He's happy and excited.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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Trauma, by definition, is unbearable and intolerable. Most rape victims, combat soldiers, and children who have been molested become so upset when they think about what they experienced that they try to push it out of their minds, trying to act as if nothing happened, and move on. It takes tremendous energy to keep functioning while carrying the memory of terror, and the shame of utter weakness and vulnerability.
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
