David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.
David Bowie
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I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
Sally Rand
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After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.
Amy Tan
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I have visited (Burma) and I know that there is only one instrument of government, and that is the army...If I were Aung San Suu Kyi, I think I'd rather be behind a fence and be a symbol than after two or three years, be found impotent.
Lee Kuan Yew
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I wish I had a family. In the future I´ll try to figure out how to dedicate more time to my personal life, and yes, maybe think about a family, kids, comes an age when the body asks for it.5
Luis Miguel
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The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
Lester Cole
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In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.
Luke Evans
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When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.
Brian McKnight
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It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
Chris Lilley
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It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.
Krysten Ritter
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
Peter De Vries
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That's how me and my friends are. We love our personal relationships, but we have things we want to accomplish.
Jessica Williams
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Let me highlight the fact, then, that a mistrust of outsiders – as manifested by and in states for thousands of years – is very different from an ideology asserting that one uniquely pure race is morally superior to all others. Such thinking was by no means the norm even in European fascism. It runs directly counter to Marx.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.
Kat Graham
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
Abigail Washburn
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So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
George Eliot
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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Johnny Carson
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Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.
David Bowie
