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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A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.
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Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.
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If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.
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What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
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I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
