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
  • Tennis

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

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

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Feel
  • Nurse
  • Secretary

• 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

• The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Mind
  • Player

• 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'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Community

• In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Politics

• There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • People

• When I started playing music, it was natural for me to make passionate, heavy, electro rock. It was in my musical DNA.

  

  Ryan Shuck
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Started

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

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Mean
  • Said