David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
Sam Hunt -
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Xenophon -
I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
Idris Elba -
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
Harmony Korine -
When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.
Samantha Mumba
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
Larry Bird -
If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
Pat Buchanan -
It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
Safak Pavey -
It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
Ted Cruz -
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch -
Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
D. A. Pennebaker
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
Aaron Neville -
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
Zig Ziglar -
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
Kate Braverman -
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
Ibrahim Babangida -
There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
D. B. Sweeney -
while the shadows like long fingers over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards.
Anne Carson
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I'm not the No. 1 starter. I'm not the guy that's going to carry the staff for four months out of the season, but I can contribute in a lot of ways. And to me I'm very proud of that.
Jamie Moyer -
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frederick Buechner -
I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology.
Neri Oxman -
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
Bruce Sterling -
Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.
Mark Z. Danielewski -
I never really had much of an interest in fashion.
David Bowie