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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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.
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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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You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.
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Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?
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Having really good ideas comes from being able to listen to everybody else and see what their ideas are, because they're coming from a completely different place. That's always been important. It's part of being in a band.
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
