David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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These golden mattersOf Gyges and his treasuriesAre no concern of mine.Jealousy has no power over me,Nor do I envy a god his work,And I do not burn to rule.Such things have noFascination for my eyes.
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I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.
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So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.
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I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
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It's only forever... Not long at all.
