David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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I'm so bored by business and money.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
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'Humanity has evolved-as far as it has evolved,' continued the old priest, 'with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.''Empathy,' Aenea said softly.
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Today, no great Western nation has a birthrate that will prevent the extinction of its native-born. By century's end, other peoples and other cultures will have largely repopulated the Old Continent. European Man seems destined to end like the 10 lost tribes of Israel-overrun, assimilated and disappeared.
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Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns, Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous, Eliciting the still sustaining pomps Of speech which are like music so profound They seem an exaltation without sound.
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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.
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The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.
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The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.
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In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.
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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
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My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.
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You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart. You know what's on my mind, you've heard my thoughts. I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.
