David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.
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I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.
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I grew up in Madras and did my schooling at St. Bedes and college at Loyola.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.
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There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.
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Advanced ticket sales have been terrific but we've also found that on the day of the show twice as many people are just walking up (to buy tickets). Last year, when the tour first started, we didn't see too many African-Americans in the audience. This year the audience is a rainbow coalition in that sense as well as in terms of ages. The audience ages are all over the map. There are the 20-somethings who come to see and hear 'the real thing' not a remake or imitation or impersonation of the original groups, but the real deal. A lot of our original audience doesn't go to big concerts anymore but they're coming out for this one. It's one last party.
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Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
