David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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A house is kind of scary.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.
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There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
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I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.
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When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.
