David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
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• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  

  Barry McGuire
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• But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

  

  Patrick Geddes
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• Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
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• I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.

  

  Eddie Trunk
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• It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
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• The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

  

  Hal David
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• I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving!

  

  Hannah Storm
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• I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.

  

  Venus Williams
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• The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I've had some experience in this arena. So it wasn't foreign to me to have a woman say she doesn't want to see me anymore.

  

  Larry David
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• I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.

  

  Cy Twombly
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• The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• You know, if you've got nine people that you've got to get a treat for - because you do have sweet food, even if you're poor - you can't go out and buy a Sara Lee cake. You buy the big bag of cookies, those chocolate and vanilla ones with the icing. That has a lot of trans fat in it, but it goes a long way with a lot of people.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
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  • Long
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• I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

  

  Jack Whittaker
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• Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.

  

  David Bowie
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