David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Let's have some new cliches.
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The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
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I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
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In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says:
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There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
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I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.
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It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.
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The day my players relax, I get crazy. They know that.
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I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'
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Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.
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The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
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I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.
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The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
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I have today decided that I will not order the extradition of Senator Pinochet to Spain. I have also decided not to ... proceed in respect of the extradition requests from Switzerland, Belgium and France.
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That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
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We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.
