David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
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He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.
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There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
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A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.
