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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'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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In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
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A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
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I grew up as a man because I was by myself.
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The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand.
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He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.
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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.
