David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

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• I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
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• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

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• The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

  

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• There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

  

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• You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.

  

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• I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
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• Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
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• One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.

  

  Xochi Birch
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• When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.

  

  Anthony Burgess
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• Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

  

  Kent Beck
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• Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

  

  Maurice Baring
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• I am beyond thrilled to be hitting the road with 'Singin' in the Rain.' As a huge fan of the original movie, the chance to bring this story to life on stage is something I couldn't pass up, and it'll be great visiting some of the beautiful theatres on the tour; some I've been to previously; some are going to be a brand new experience for me.

  

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• New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.

  

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• A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

  

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• Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

  

  Anna Seward
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• Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.

  

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• My first pregnancy, I gained 75 pounds.

  

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• My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

  

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• Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.

  

  Alfred Noyes
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• All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

  

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• I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

  

  Emmanuelle Chriqui
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• However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

  

  David Bowie
  • Song
  • Running