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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  • Assets
  • Accent

• 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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  • Believe
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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
  • American
  • America
  • Today

• 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
  • You
  • More
  • Fit

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

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Soul
  • Identity
  • Gender

• 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

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

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Sorry

• 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
  • Football

• 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
  • Nice

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

  

  David Ortiz
  • Game
  • Worry

• '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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  • Movie
  • Emotional

• 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
  • Free
  • 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

• I don't like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear short skirts - but I think at 78, one's got to act one's age.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Age
  • Cold

• Some of our kids are adopted and some kids are natural-born - I forget which ones are which. Family's just amazing. We think that of everything that we could do in the world... if you don't take care of your family and raise your kids, you lose.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • World
  • Family
  • Kids

• The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casualitysic, color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Great
  • Country
  • Day

• Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Souls
  • Breast

• I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.

  

  Tacitus
  • Character
  • Slavery
  • Laws

• Integrity means doing the right thing, especially when no one is watching.

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Mean
  • Integrity

• 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