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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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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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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Way down South they gave a jubilee Them Georgia folks they had a jamboree They’re drinking home brew from a wooden cup The folks dancing there got all shook up.
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.
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I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.
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People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.
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It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
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I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.
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War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.
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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.
