David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

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• My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Seriously

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
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• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
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• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
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• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Army
  • Being

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Time
  • Same
  • Hat

• Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Style
  • Easy
  • Relaxed

• Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Value
  • More
  • Philosophers

• If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Best
  • Period

• I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Together

• I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Rest
  • Week
  • Battle

• I was a religious 'SNL' watcher all through middle school. I was obsessed with Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, Cheri Oteri - they were on right when I found the show. Then I started watching the older episodes, and it just totally blew my mind that my dream show already existed.

  

  Aidy Bryant
  • Mind
  • School
  • Dream

• ...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Good
  • Community
  • Alone

• To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• The head of NASA ought to be a space professional, not a politician.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Space
  • Professional

• I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

  

  Dustin Diamond
  • Guy

• People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

  

  David Bowie
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