David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Live
  • Write

• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Play
  • Player

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Myself
  • Idea
  • Original

• My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Handle

• Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • Relationships

• I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Me
  • Bought
  • Bankrupted

• I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • People
  • Problem
  • Image

• So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Acting

• I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Small
  • Back
  • Going

• I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Great
  • Think
  • Partner

• Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • World
  • Great
  • Love

• Krishna Vamsi is a very good director.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Director
  • Krishna

• Today, terrorism threatens a great number of states, a great number of people - hundreds of thousands, millions of people suffer from its criminal activity. And we all face the task of joining our efforts in the fight against this common evil.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Evil
  • Fighting

• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mud

• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • You
  • inspirational

• I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Church
  • Roles
  • Self-confidence

• 'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

  

  Christine Ebersole
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Done
  • Together