David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
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While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.
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All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.
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In the case of the cashew, someone, somewhere, a long time ago determined that it had to be roasted. The cashew was once nicknamed the blister nut, because if you try to eat it raw from the tree, your mouth pays the price. The cashew is not a nut, however; it's a seed.
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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
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Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.
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I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
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I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written in the past that appear very personal often are fictions of the personal, which nevertheless reveal concerns of mine. I've always thought of my first-person speaker as an amalgam of selves, maybe of other people's experiences as well.
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Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.
