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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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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Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
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To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
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There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
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Part of your work feels as clear, it gives you a sense of liberation or beauty and you recognize it as necessary pavements. You are thus in a sense ready. In the other part of your work this is not the case. Therein is the hidden development, which is the true essence of art... the higher purpose, the pursuit forward that art automatically calls. The unclear part of your work needs to progress stopping is no option, is no life, no art and it is clear when by working with head and heart, the real step forward has been achieved.
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Dance Monkey' is about the bad side of busking.
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My thing is, I want to play for the team that wants me to be a part of them.
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
