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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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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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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Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.
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I'm proud to be a hard working actress; it's what I've always loved to do and I'm so happy and proud to still be doing it.
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Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.
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My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.
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You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
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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.
