David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

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• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Look
  • Hide
  • Eighteen

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • School
  • Know
  • Learn

• They tried to make me go to RehabI said no, no, noYes, I've been black, but when I come backYou'll know, know, know!I ain’t got the time,And if my daddy thinks I'm fineJust try to make me go to rehabI won't go, go, go.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Time
  • Black

• I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you're so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Women
  • Friends

• The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Time
  • Black

• It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

  

  Jason Lewis
  • Good
  • Power

• The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.

  

  Common
  • World

• Melody Maker: Did Andy Wood's death and then Kurt Cobain's affect your attitude to drugs?

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Death
  • Attitude

• When we serve the great, they are our destiny.

  

  Mary Renault
  • Great
  • Destiny

• I didn’t really expect to make any money. If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Money
  • Food

• I like people too much. I really do.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People

• I have long been a supporter of The Princes Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch Amex Be Inspired and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

  

  John Travolta
  • Sex
  • I Can
  • Symbols

• I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Taken

• My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

  

  Earl Thomas
  • Life
  • Greatness
  • Bigs

• In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Health
  • Religious

• On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Presidential
  • Election
  • Ballot

• The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

  

  Abe Ajay
  • Art World
  • New Look

• You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Women
  • Development
  • Cases

• Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

  

  William Saroyan
  • Words
  • Inspiration
  • Famous

• Kickstarter is perfect for us. It wasn't something we heard about and just got to it. We did our research, met with the people at Kickstarter - they are brilliant, and they're excited to work with us.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Perfect
  • Kickstarter

• Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

  

  David Bowie
  • Cases
  • Insanity
  • Razors