David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.
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'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'
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We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.
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We learn only to ask more questions.
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I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
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I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
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This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.
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The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.
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It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.
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I'm a redneck.
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I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.
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I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.
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I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.
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I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.
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We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
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Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
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I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.
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When I'm alone in my hotel room in some foreign place, I feel very lonely. Then I tuck into my favourite chocolate - Chuckles or Whispers - for some comfort.
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I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.
