David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.
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I'm excited to join the StyleHaul community and bring new content to my fans.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.
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Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.
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The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.
