David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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In taking leave of this subject for the present I wish to renew the expression of my conviction that the existence of African slavery in Cuba is a principal cause of the lamentable condition of the island. I do not doubt that Congress shares with me the hope that it will soon be made to disappear, and that peace and prosperity may follow its abolition.
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The best philanthropy is anonymous charity. When you’re doing it for the right reasons, and not to tell everyone how nice you are. That’s self-aggrandizement. That’s also OK: if you want credit, that’s OK. But the higher giving is anonymous giving.
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India is for me a difficult country. It isn’t my home and cannot be my home; and yet I cannot reject it or be indifferent to it; I cannot travel only for the sights. I am at once too close and too far.
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In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.
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I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.
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Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
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The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.
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I believe someone should be able to dress according to the mood they're in. It shouldn't be forced and you shouldn't have to follow a trend.
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And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
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When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?
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I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
