David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?
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In the end nobody knows how it's done - how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
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If you take a step back and you look at the overall picture, there's a lot of teams in this league that could use a quarterback of Colin Kaepernick's ability.
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
