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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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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I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.
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When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'
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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
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Time may change me, but I can't trace time.
