David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.
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No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.
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I love Wisconsin. It's a great place.
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I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.
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I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.
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I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.
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They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.
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I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
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I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.
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I love Italian food.
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
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One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
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Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.
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It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.
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Doubtless he was going to start bragging about being a god. It went with the profile of this sort of lunatic.
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It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...it is the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
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Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
