David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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I'm tired of being considered property.
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On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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We need to fund relationship language in our schools so that future parents will know how to communicate about whether they want children; to communicate with the children they have, and teach their children how to communicate with the world. Technical progress without social skills is a Tower of Babel.
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I've done 70 different characters on my podcast. But in terms of characters that I revisit a lot, I think there are 10 that I know more in-depth.
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We try not to have any vanity or judgment about genre or type of film.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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I'm kind of boring - I like to watch the 'Newshour' on Friday nights.
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I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.
