David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

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• There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Financial

• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Christianity

• Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Achieve

• I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Think
  • Cloud

• My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Road

• It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Time
  • Strong

• Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Theatre

• Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Black
  • White
  • Strategy

• In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Science

• I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Long
  • Job

• Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fearless
  • Risks
  • Optimism

• I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Why
  • Always
  • Flower

• I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Way

• If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Important
  • Expectation

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06

  

  Oswald Spengler

• It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Crazy
  • Doubt

• I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

  

  Mark Morris
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

  

  Jane D. Hull
  • Children
  • High
  • Education

• If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

  

  Allegra Huston
  • Rebel

• Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Quality
  • Helping
  • Leader

• Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in life-cycle costs.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • Life
  • Energy

• Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

  

  David Bowie
  • Quality
  • Rebel
  • Hot