David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
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Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
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I'm gathering Kylie thinks that all it takes to capture an image is to point and shoot. That's what everyone thinks. But there's a lot more to it. It's taken me years to frame things correctly. People assume you can't take good pictures on an iPhone, but they're wrong. Some of my best shots are on the phone.They're raw and simple, and most of the time no one knows you're taking a picture. It's much better than the thousand-dollar Nikon my dad got me for Christmas. I don't think I've used it in months.
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I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.'
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To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
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There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
