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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
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.
Ted Engstrom -
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.
Malcolm Mclaren -
I understand how the economy actually works.
Carly Fiorina -
You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
Barry Manilow -
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.
Malcolm Wallop -
There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
Brown Campbell -
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.
Imtiaz Ali -
The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.
Valerie Bertinelli -
When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm kind of a maniac. I race everybody.
Dan Hill
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For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.
Ralph Ellison -
I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.
Nile Rodgers Chic -
In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to navigate the city to eat.
Matt Cain -
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
James Hillman -
It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
The Weeknd -
We act in ways that are mysterious to ourselves.
Katie Kitamura
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The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.
Chris Sacca -
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
Walker Percy -
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Confucius -
At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?
Ulrich Walter -
You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
Sally Hawkins -
I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.
David Bowie