David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
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To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
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travesty and a strategic blunder of epic proportions on the part of the Defense Department.
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Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
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It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.
