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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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
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It's just fun to be in Paris.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
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travesty and a strategic blunder of epic proportions on the part of the Defense Department.
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You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.
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The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!
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Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.
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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.
