David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.
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Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.
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Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.
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180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!
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I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.
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Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.
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Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
