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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I went to law school after college.
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I've grown up feeling very American but being constantly bothered by people - there's internalized racism and feeling weird about being second-generation.
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People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?
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God is still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate, to me, is outrageous.
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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.
