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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Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
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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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Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.
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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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You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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Any company faces big challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going ahead on the existing track. Even when they know there are problems, the first reaction is to protect the old way.
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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
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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.
