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.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Never
  • Bike
  • Falling

• We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

  

  P. D. James
  • Good
  • Friends
  • English

• 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.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Time
  • Business
  • Running

• For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choice
  • Miserable
  • Motivate

• 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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • House
  • Play
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Best
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • Music
  • Singing

• Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Happiness
  • Attitude
  • Depend

• It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Band
  • Lifestyle
  • Bigger

• 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.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Great
  • Family
  • Career

• You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

  

  Saint Stephen
  • God
  • Desire
  • Trust

• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Rain

• 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.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• 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.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Mistake
  • Courage

• Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

  

  Anna Maria Chavez
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt.

  

  Leonard Lance

• I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Life
  • Good
  • Boss

• When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Money
  • Art
  • Together

• One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • People
  • Star
  • Challenges

• People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.

  

  David Bowie
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