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

• I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.

  

  Ann-Marie MacDonald
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Good
  • Night
  • Onstage

• Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?

  

  Darren Hardy
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Helping

• Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Night
  • Car
  • Driving

• The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!

  

  Martin Denny
  • Good
  • Different
  • Friends

• 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