David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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scathing indictment of the climate and leadership to permit sexual harassment to permeate all levels of the Army.
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When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.
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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
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Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me.
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All of our dreams can come true...
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
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It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.
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You always want to do things in your hometown. The kids feel more a part of the community when they do.
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If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
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Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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You always have good shows and bad shows. People want a certain amount of each. It's just widening the market a little bit. The involvement of people at home is just broadening things.
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If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.
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I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
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I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.
