David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
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There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.
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After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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A lot of people do come here for lobster. My four brothers, they all lobster . . . along with my dad, my two nephews, my grandson and a couple of friends.
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.
