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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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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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 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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The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom.
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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
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Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
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In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.
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Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.
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Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.
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Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.
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If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.
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The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention with golf is like selling Shakespeare in the neighbourhood saloon.
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
