David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

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• Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • World
  • Best

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Think
  • Never
  • Answer

• And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Hair

• Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

  

  Babasaheb

• Clarice: getting cold feet There's still time!Toni: We can just call everyone and say we're terribly sorry but something came up and we have to leave town!Clarice: ...But what about the five gallons of baba ganoush, and all those tofu pups?Toni: Shit. I forgot. Well, I guess we'll just have to go through with it, then.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Cold

• 'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)

  

  Edward VIII
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When the world wide war is over and done And the dream of peace comes through We'll all be drinking some free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Up
  • World
  • Done

• Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

  

  Anita Baker
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  • Cat

• I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

  

  Jim Otto
  • School
  • True
  • High

• Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Book

• 'Moldova: Yes or No?' That's a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say 'Yes, you're in Moldova.' I'm so excited. People need that. That's the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are... in Moldova. Or not.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • People
  • Great

• Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Alone

• If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Health

• If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

  

  Jim Lehrer
  • Real

• My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

  

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher
  • School

• You take your shots when you have them, and I threw a lot of touchdowns, but I'm always going to take care of the football in the red zone.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Football
  • Red

• The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Emotional

• We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Money
  • Giving

• The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

  

  John Kasich
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Thinking
  • Courage
  • Gay

• When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

  

  David Bowie
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