David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

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• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

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• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
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• When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
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• He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

  

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• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  

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• The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.

  

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• Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
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• I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Mother
  • Day
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• I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

  

  Edmund White
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• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
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• My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

  

  Zosia Mamet
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  • Mom
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• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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  • Amazing
  • Reason

• Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

  

  David Bowie
  • May

• But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

  

  Mary Augusta Ward
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Summer

• You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Kind

• You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Kind

• I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Artist