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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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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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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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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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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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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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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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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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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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.
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There is something more profound than just real estate because the decline of retail is social. People don't go in small stores - that is a change that is happening in the consumer culture.
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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.
