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

  

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

  

  Carla Bruni
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• I like things simple.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• 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
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• 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

• Rules are what governs us as humans, but it was wonderful to meet a man who said "There are no rules. You gotta be what you gotta be and you gotta believe in it." I know that's a feeling I used to feel a lot at a younger age, and through the sense of responsibility and working with so many and taking on so many duties and actions, you lose if you don't stay on top of it. So that's what I love about this man, that there are no rules.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
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  • Responsibility

• I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs with my health that often tested me as it does many people. I've never hidden the fact that my health was sometimes not on my side, but I've never let it define me or deter me from my dreams.

  

  Jessie J
  • People
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• Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Road

• What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
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• I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.

  

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

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Mean
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