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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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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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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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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'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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Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don’t go away. And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that's very different from a company.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.
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Lovely place, shame about the people!
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For me, I guess the general reason for using social media is that the connection I have with people who are interested in my music is extremely important to me. That connection is like the pillar in everything I do. I want to embrace that connection and make it stronger.
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Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
