David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.
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Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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There are worse things in life than being called a lady.
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I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
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Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
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Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.
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To stand out in the crowd I liked the color purple.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.
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I think it's time to focus exclusively on this rough ride issue to evoke change here, to change the longstanding custom of handing out street justice.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."
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Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.
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Rock's always been the devil's music.
