David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

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• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  

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• I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

  

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• Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

  

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• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

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• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

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• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  

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• Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

  

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• I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

  

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• I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

  

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• If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.

  

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• My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

  

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• Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.

  

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• The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.

  

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• I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.

  

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• My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.

  

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• The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.

  

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• There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

  

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• There are two kinds of people in America today: those who have experienced a foreign cyber attack and know it, and those who have experienced a foreign cyber attack and don't know it.

  

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• Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.

  

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• I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

  

  David Bowie
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