David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

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• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
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• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
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• I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.

  

  Vijender Singh
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• A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
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• Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

  

  Edna Ferber
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• Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Soul
  • Identity
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• As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Money
  • Popular

• Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Nature
  • Brave
  • Coward

• I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Sorry

• My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.

  

  Daniella Alonso
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• I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

  

  David Storey
  • People
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• There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Fall

• I will do simple cleanses and have a day where I'm quiet and don't talk. I need to have this experience, especially after work has been really intense.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Simple

• People are starting to recognize me, and it can be hard because I'm a really nice person, and people will ask me uncomfortable questions like they know me, and I'm just like, 'Umm... can I walk away now?'

  

  Jessie Pavelka
  • People
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• I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

  

  David Ortiz
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• 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' is one of my favorite movies, and I laugh all the time, and I cry during the one funeral. But I'll say that 'Monsters, Inc.' is a movie that really gets me super-emotional. Especially the ending.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
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• I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

  

  Bret McKenzie
  • World
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  • Cool

• Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • Work
  • Habit

• We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

  

  J. Allen Boone

• When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

  

  B. B. King
  • World
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• Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Earth
  • Humanity

• I often say that I want to write like Tupac rapped. I could listen to his album, and within a few minutes, I could go from thinking deeply to laughing to crying to partying.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Thinking
  • Crying

• I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Thinking
  • Musical
  • Punk

• I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Mean