David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.
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Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
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I like being by myself.
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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A veces hallo tan grande a la miseria que temo necesitar de ella.
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Pubs would be number one. And black cabs and cabbies - moody cabbies always crack me up. And the other thing I love is the parks: the parks around London don't get enough airtime - I think they're sensational, and when spring hits, the first thing I'll do is go to the park.
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Dates are great because they're a high-energy fruit with a lot of fiber.
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I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.
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My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
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I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.
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Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.
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Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
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I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.
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I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
