David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
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I think I'm good at training dogs, but none of my dogs agree with me on that.
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I actually think it's against the rules at Vox Media to work there if you've never dropped an iPhone.
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There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
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If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me.
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I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.
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If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the latest movies on demand that I usually missed at the theater. I love magazines. My top three: Graydon Carter's 'Vanity Fair', Adam Moss' 'New York magazine' and David Remnick's 'New Yorker.'
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Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
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'Things change,' says Mr Shimada. 'Is world's sad secret.'
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I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
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The only thing that I know, is that I know nothing.
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If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
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Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
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I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
