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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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 don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.
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No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.
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Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's responsibility, to dismantle the structures that keep white people in positions of power. We do our job to thrive, to survive. To protect ourselves, to sit together and feel better and to heal.
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That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.
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Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we're focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide.
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I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.
