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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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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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.
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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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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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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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I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.
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Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!
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The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
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Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.
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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.
