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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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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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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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 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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I just really want to continue to play those roles where I really have something to do, and mainly, above all, work with people that I can learn from - directors I think are so great.
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For me, nothing is old. I don't know why. If a dress is beautiful, and it's very personal, I think it can live forever.
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As a nation, America is at its best when we are thinking and making things and exporting to the world.
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Not only did I always know I was black, I always knew we were and are beautiful, culturally rich, and creators of everything from the sciences to the arts.
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I just don't know anything about fashion.
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I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.
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E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in contrast to a divided Europe of the previous century, are ones that remind us of how important it is that we work together.
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I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another.
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There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today.
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The question of what happens after life is question that unifies human beings.
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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.
