David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madras, and I lost touch with them. But I'm friends with all my directors, and they are very important for me.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
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I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
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The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.
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Some participants are trying to put formulas unacceptable to Russia, including on Chechnya, into the declaration
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Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.
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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
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I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.
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I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light.
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Kitchen is the place where we have our best and worst conversations. It's such a dying thing, people sitting around the table and enjoying dinner together in their home. My mission is to keep that alive.
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I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.
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Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
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The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.
