David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.
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I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
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Like any bully, Putin only picks fights that he is sure he can win. History tells us that sooner or later, he will become so overconfident, so accustomed to his opponents folding their cards against his weak hand, that he will overstep, potentially resulting in a catastrophe on a global scale.
Garry Kasparov -
As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and again.
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There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.
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Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
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The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
