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.David Bowie
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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.
Laura Linney -
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
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.
Dan Stevens -
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster -
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.
J. Michael Straczynski -
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.
Mae Jemison
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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.
Larry David -
While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.
Kapil Sibal -
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.
Laila Ali -
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.
Kate Christensen -
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
Garry Trudeau -
Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
Damian Loeb
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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
Karl Lagerfeld -
When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.
Sia LSD -
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.
Jenji Kohan -
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax -
All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale.
Faisal I of Iraq -
The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
Barbara Lee
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
Erma Bombeck -
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
Damien Chazelle -
[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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