David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
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When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
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If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.
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What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.
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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism.
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Time may change me, but I can't trace time.
