David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.
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No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
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In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.
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We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'
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It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.
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Make no a complete sentence.
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I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.
