David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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[Bob] Corker was an early endorser.
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The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.
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I think throughout your whole career a player can improve.
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Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
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I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
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The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.
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There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.
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Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
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I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.
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We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. —George Orwell, 1946
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What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
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A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.
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I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.
