David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.
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I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
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Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.
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I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.
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You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.
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I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.
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Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.
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The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.
