David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

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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.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Up
  • College
  • New

• 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.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • Done
  • May

• A hard man is good to find.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Find

• My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Father
  • Moment

• I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  Verite
  • Small
  • Lost
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• I'm as pure as the driven slush.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Driven
  • Pure
  • Slush

• I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Money

• So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Long
  • President
  • Communism

• 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.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Proud
  • Journey
  • Dying

• I'm so proud of my girl Kehlani. She and SZA are killing it.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • She
  • Girl
  • Proud

• 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.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Alone
  • Lonely

• I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Dream

• We just have to accept who we are, and I'm a film nerd, for better or worse.

  

  Max Minghella
  • Nerd

• Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

  

  Murray Rothbard
  • Natural
  • Equal
  • Consequence

• I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.

  

  David Grann
  • Baseball
  • Summer
  • Romantic

• I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

  

  David Bowie
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Europe