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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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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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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Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
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I want to do good work in the world.
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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.
