David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

David Bowie

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• Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Fun
  • Right
  • WIld

• The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • American
  • Want

• My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Son

• That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Come

• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • You
  • Strong
  • I Can

• I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Happy
  • Needs

• For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Teach

• As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Change
  • Like

• The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• There will be many who will eagerly and with great care and solicitude follow up a thing, which, if they only knew its malignity, would always terrify them. Of those men, who, the older they grow, the more avaricious they become, whereas, having but little time to stay, they should become more liberal.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Life
  • Long
  • Remember

• It's very difficult to have any kind of romantic feelings for a movie where you know exactly what's going to happen in the first five minutes.

  

  Joe Swanberg
  • Movie
  • Romantic

• These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.

  

  Frankie Avalon
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Today

• In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Projects

• I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.

  

  Andris Nelsons

• ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

  

  Don Nickles
  • Great
  • Future
  • Political

• Jamie Dornan is one of those guys who has no idea how gorgeous he is. He's crazy in love with his girlfriend and a crazy talent and a great singer and a great actor; just a lovely, lovely human being. It kind of makes you want to throw up a bit, but in all the right ways!

  

  Jennifer Morrison
  • Up
  • Great
  • Crazy

• When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • World

• In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Thinking
  • Agree
  • Alabama

• I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Music
  • Song

• I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Coffee
  • Grandmother
  • Taste

• We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Real
  • Defeated

• I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Live
  • Forever

• I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Night