David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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I was eight years old when Miley Cyrus made her debut on Disney Channel's 'Hannah Montana' and beginning my senior year of high school when she delivered the VMAs performance that single-handedly butchered the teddy-bear industry.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.
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When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-colored life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toiled after him in vain.
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For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.
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For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.
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The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.
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Villains are meant to be hated.
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If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them.
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Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.
