David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
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The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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As the Holy Koran tells us: 'Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.' That is what I will try to do today - to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
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I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.
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None whatsoever.
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Emptiness the starting point. - In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.
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Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.
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I do remember the people who believed in me in the beginning. I'll never forget that.
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I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.
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Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.
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It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
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Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
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He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
