David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.
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Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.
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The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
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I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.
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I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
