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.David Bowie
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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.
Sam Raimi -
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.
Carl Safina -
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.
Nadine Velazquez -
You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
Paddy Considine -
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.
Daniel Barenboim -
I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
Karen Hughes
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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.
Vin Diesel -
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.
Jack McBrayer -
Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
Pat Nixon -
There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
Ted Sarandos -
I'm not a violent person.
Manute Bol -
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.
Eric Lynn Wright
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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
Zygmunt Bauman -
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.
Karan Mahajan -
Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
Omari Hardwick -
I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.
Andrew Solomon -
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.
Mary Beard -
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.
Joanna Lumley
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And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing youSome decisions you don't makeI guess it's just like breathing or not wanting toThere are some things you can't fake
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today are different, different in all ways. Their savagery is done in technical ways, so they are not called savages anymore. I don't know what savage means, really. There are good and bad in every race. There are traditional values that are good and bad. That goes for everybody.
Alma Hogan Snell -
I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.
Pauline Matthews -
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.
David Bowie