David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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A hard man is good to find.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
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So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.
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For those who are concerned about me, please don’t be - I love Groupon, and I’m terribly proud of what we’ve created. I’m OK with having failed at this part of the journey. If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on my first ever play through.
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I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
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I'm so proud of my girl Kehlani. She and SZA are killing it.
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There's a lot of distrust of the United States, and I certainly see that. But at the same time, everything that I've seen is that the U.S. is a genuine force for good in the world.
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America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.
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When I exercise regularly, my writing flow improves.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
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In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.
