David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

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• An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

  

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• When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.

  

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• I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

  

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• Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
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• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

  

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• We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

  

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• When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
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• My best friend is my husband.

  

  Samantha Bond
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• I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.

  

  Samantha Bee
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• Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

  

  J. A. Konrath
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• That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

  

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• Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

  

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• I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

  

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• I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.

  

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• All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

  

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• War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.

  

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• If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

  

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• I was born into public service.

  

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• Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then as I got older, they were like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg.' Now they're like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg's cousin from Massachusetts.'

  

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• Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

  

  Aaron Cohen
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• Politicians like Prime Minister David Cameron have lost all sense of reality. The people have seen how billions were spent on Greece and Turkey, on deals with Erdogan or for asylum seekers.

  

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• I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

  

  David Bowie
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