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.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Listen
  • Get

• 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.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Imagination
  • Irish
  • Creepy

• 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.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Religion

• The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Unique
  • Place
  • Special

• 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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Think
  • Happen
  • Injuries

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Change

• I like being by myself.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Being

• I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Think
  • Sensible

• 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)

  

  Aristophanes

• Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

  

  Algernon Sidney

• Dates are great because they're a high-energy fruit with a lot of fiber.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Great
  • High
  • Energy

• 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.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Up
  • Live
  • Soul

• Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Work
  • Important
  • Monday

• 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.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Community

• I'm still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy.

  

  Mark Kirk
  • Air
  • Army

• I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Grandma

• I would like to be an FBI profiler. I'm fascinated with psychology, but I wouldn't want to deal with people and their problems in my office. I like to figure them out from afar, narrow a case down, figure it out, but it sounds like a lot of science.

  

  Kathleen Madigan
  • Science
  • Problems
  • Psychology

• My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.

  

  Willis Earl Beal
  • Talent
  • Point
  • Delusion

• My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Song
  • Church

• If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  David Bowie
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