David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
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My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.
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I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.
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Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.
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Life is a journey, it can take you anywhere you choose to go
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Schulz told lies in German, and it's unfortunate someone can speak German in this house, but it is our responsibility to stand up against it - the generation of Schulz's parents and the generation of the Arab MKs' parents collaborated to destroy the Jews. (on European Parliament President Martin Schulz)
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.