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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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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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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A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.
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Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.
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With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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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.
