David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.
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I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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Nothing prepared me for your smile
