David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

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• The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Laws

• Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Facts
  • Away
  • Ignoring

• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Party
  • Liberal
  • Corporate

• When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Happy

• We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Hockey

• Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Life
  • Water
  • Quality

• Deus seu Natura

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Path
  • Literature

• Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Different
  • Money
  • Practice

• ...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to the commonplace, the obvious, the probable, the collectively valid, using for his motto: 'Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.'

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Thinking

• As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.

  

  Samuel Gompers

• Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Future
  • Past

• The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and friend to her foe.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Country
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• When I was a kid, I was into The New York Jets. And then I got into girls as I got older, and then I got back into the Jets because I'd realized there's times when the girl won't f*^k you, but the Jets will always f*^k you.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Girl

• Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Work
  • Friends

• When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Rock
  • Teenager

• The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance.

  

  H. Richard Niebuhr
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Peace

• I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

  

  Phyllis Diller

• Educated men - 'civilized,' as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

  

  Peter Kropotkin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Police

• If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Different
  • Film
  • Years

• Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

  

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