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 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'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'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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I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
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We just have to accept who we are, and I'm a film nerd, for better or worse.
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I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.
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Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.
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It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.
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I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.
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In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.
