David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.
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You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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I have been playing tennis for a very long time. Tennis is my life. I see my life in other places, and there are other challenges for me.
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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
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And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? - now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
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I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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That daydreaming mode turns out to be restorative. It's like hitting the reset button in your brain. And you don't get in that daydreaming mode typically by texting and Facebooking. You get in it by disengaging.
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You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.
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So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.
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People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.
