David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

David Bowie

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• I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Rock
  • Like
  • More

• Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Find
  • Solutions

• I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Best

• That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Think
  • Early

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Beautiful
  • Parents
  • Focus

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • History
  • Celebrity
  • Brand

• I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Friend
  • Day
  • Mom

• The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Spiritual

• Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Drinking
  • Smoking

• The opponents of EEC membership inside the Labour Party know how much more difficult it would be to foist their brand of left-wing socialism on the British people if we remain part of a Community based on the principles of free enterprise and the mixed economy. We in the Conservative Party must vigorously oppose this ominous development.

  

  Edward Heath
  • People
  • Free
  • Community

• Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.

  

  Princess Eugenie of York
  • World
  • Friends

• I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Good
  • Job
  • Perfect

• I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Hero
  • Reasons
  • Sure

• Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

  

  Derek Theler
  • Up
  • College

• Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Women
  • Power
  • Health

• If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

  

  David Bowie
  • Courage
  • Hero