David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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And from the point of view of art there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. That those lies are necessary to our mental selves is beyond any doubt, as it is through them that we form our aesthetic point of view of life. (Paris 1923)
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Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
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I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
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We can't afford to be killing one another.
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The American Dream is really money.
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We had four different sets and built 38 flats to use as walls, so we had a major production going on. It's so much fun when you're controlling it, but it's also so much pressure.
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I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.
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My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'
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I cook every night: it's part of the marriage pact.
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Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.
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Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
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The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, Girl in stall No. 1 were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, yeah that was me.
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.