David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.
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We shred every day.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
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You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
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I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.
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You're an awful little guy to be such a big thief.
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This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. ... As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.
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No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.
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The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
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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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Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.
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I think the Indian model of respecting the uniqueness of each religion and, of every state is what makes the country great.
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It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.
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I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.
