David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
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A lot of people behind the scenes were telling me that I was going to have to do something with my hair, my weight, all of that stuff.
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Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
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After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have been taken out of their original Bible context and put together for mass, and now they form a new text. Out of that new text, there is an interplay of new meaning.
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I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.
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When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.
