David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.

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• Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Learn
  • Acting
  • Nation

• I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Music
  • Protection
  • Copy

• In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • World
  • Good
  • Home

• The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Life
  • Political
  • Me

• Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

  

  Kurt Loder

• The No. 1 issue with women in this country is jobs, and the No. 2 issue is our national security. So, economic security, national security and retirement security.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Women
  • Country
  • Retirement

• True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

  

  Philip Massinger
  • True
  • Lost

• There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

  

  David Twohy
  • Opinion
  • Diversity

• For me, there's nothing more masculine than when I'm completely in control of my body and can call upon my body to do whatever I want it to do.

  

  Derek Hough
  • Control

• I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Depression

• Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

  

  David Icke
  • Different
  • Society

• My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

  

  Jamie Oliver
  • Together
  • Feeling
  • Dad

• Scrape. Feel. Dig. Believe. Ask.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Believe

• Experienced well-being is on average unaffected by marriage, not because marriage makes no difference to happiness, but because it changes some aspects of life for the better and others for the worse.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Life
  • Marriage

• Parental neglect even in intact families, can have a shattering effect on how daughters- even those with loving mothers- feel about men.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Men
  • Families
  • Neglect

• The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

  

  Alan Alda
  • City
  • Place
  • Comfort

• Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.

  

  Aristotle
  • Hero
  • Tragedy
  • Virtues

• A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Revolutionary

• We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Believe
  • Needs
  • Excuse

• If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.

  

  Rebecca Stead
  • People
  • Persons
  • Happens

• The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.

  

  David Bowie
  • Excuse
  • Revolutionary
  • Hippie