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.

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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

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• 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
  • Strong
  • You
  • I Can

• I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Like

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

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Happy
  • Needs

• If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.

  

  Xenophon
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Overcome

• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • People
  • Truth
  • Mom

• I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

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

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Teach

• I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• 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

• I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Hate
  • Argument
  • Europe

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

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Law

• 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

• It's so important to be your own biggest fan, even if you have to constantly convince people, including yourself, that you're worthy of their time and energy and ears.

  

  Bishop Briggs
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• what men are thinking I'd like a beer and I'd like to see something naked.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Beer

• Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one. I'm not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.'

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • Up
  • Time

• People should be blessed in life with friends who are both "Mirrors & Shadows"! Mirrors don't lie & shadows never leave.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.

  

  Han Suyin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Powers

• 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