David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
Quotes to Explore
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
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Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
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You have to like the characters you play.
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I like to prepare each tour in a different way.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?
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Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
