David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Most people care what people think about them... we all do.
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A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
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'I don't even know who I am.''In a way,' answered Gwydion, 'that is something we must all discover for ourselves.'
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The people who are inspiring and strong for me are the ones who acknowledge vulnerabilities.
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The first campaign that I recall was with Kate Moss and Marky Mark. Probably the most iconic jeans ad ever.
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I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.
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I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
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It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
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I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
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I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197
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Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
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We see that coming back in the fourth quarter and going on into next year.
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Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.
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The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
