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.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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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.
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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.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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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.
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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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Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
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Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations.
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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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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.
