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 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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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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Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.
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I'm willing to sit down with anybody and have constructive criticism.
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While the budget resolution is a nonbinding blueprint, it is, nevertheless, an important guideline for Congress. Once the President's proposed budget is received by Congress on the first Monday of February, Congress generally goes to work on appropriating the funds required.
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It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.
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I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.
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Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.
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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.
