David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

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• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Hard
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• It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Peace
  • Thought
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• At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Age
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• A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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• My job means I work late.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Work
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• We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• If I had to pick one social action I could encourage all my friends, family and fans to do, it would be to teach a child. One, to educate them about good music, but two, because that kind of relationship helps build a bond. When you share music with somebody, that then becomes your link to them. Music is what connects a lot of us, over borders.

  

  Aloe Blacc
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  • Music
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• But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

  

  Kevin Kline
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• The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof.

  

  Jack Kroll
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• The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

  

  Wilhelm II
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• Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".

  

  Victoria Secunda
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• School, in general, was not great. Children are just mean to each other... but by high school, I probably stopped being annoying to people, and people stopped being mean. By the end of it, it was wonderful.

  

  Eugene Mirman
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• We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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  • Studio
  • Recording

• Its just the anniversary, she wanted to tell him. Its just this time of the year stirring up these memories. Everything will be all right. But she couldn't say that, because she wasn't sure it was true.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Years
  • Memories
  • Wanted

• I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

  

  David Bowie
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