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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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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Now therefore while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
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He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
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I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.
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We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.
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Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
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Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
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I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.
