David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
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My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
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'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.
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You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.
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It's very easy for people to say what's wrong with education in Arizona, but if I'm elected as governor, I want to focus on what we're doing well and maximizing the impact of what we know is working.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
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There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.
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I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.
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It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing.
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I think life is simpler than we tend to think. We look for answers and more answers. But there are no answers. Things happen in life, good things and bad. People say, 'Why did it happen to me?' Well, why not? Some people win the lottery, and others die in a car crash. It happens, and there is nothing we can do about it. The universe doesn't care what happens to you.
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I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.