David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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I'm not a violent person.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
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I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.
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What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
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I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.
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Back when I started, you could either be a folk singer, or you could be a disco diva, or you could be a secretary or maybe a disc jockey, but there was no room for anything alternative yet.
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I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.
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Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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I think most people didn't want to do court duty.
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I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.
