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

• 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

• '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
  • Wish
  • Crazy
  • 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

• 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

• I am not gonna engage in a debate that Michael Jackson could be the biological father of any of those kids. I'm not havin it, not tonight. There's no way. Those kids are Whitey, Whitey McGee and Whitey McWhiterson!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Kids
  • Father

• Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Future
  • inspirational
  • Hindsight

• There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pleasure
  • Choice
  • Noble

• There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fall

• That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Thinking
  • Body
  • New York

• I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

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

  

  David Bowie
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