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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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
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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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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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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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As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
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If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
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The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.
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You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.
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I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
