David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.
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They say of us that we are an anti-Christian movement. They even say that I am an outspoken paganist.... I solemnly declare here, before the German public, that I stand on the basis of Christianity, but I declare just as solemnly that I will put down every attempt to introduce confessional matters into our Hitler Youth.
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I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)
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while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
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Max Planck was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, because during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood general relativity, he would have gone to bed the way I did.
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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I build myself back up and come back stronger. That's what I do.
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They have so much in-house brainpower that the use of so many consultants is time-wasteful, money-wasteful and lacks of sincerity and integrity.
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“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”
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One of the fundamental challenges of emancipation in South Africa is for the emancipated to avoid the conceptual trap of ascribing to the past of white racism centrality of explanation.
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You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.
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Now that I am an adult, I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I'm at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.
