David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

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• The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

  

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• It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

  

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• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  

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• I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

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• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

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• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

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• I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

  

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• I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

  

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• Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.

  

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• I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

  

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• I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.

  

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• If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

  

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• Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

  

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• I really enjoy working, you know, on streaming outlets because there's so much creative control for the creators of the shows, and, you know, you're allowed to make such great television.

  

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• We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

  

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• We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

  

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• When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

  

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• I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

  

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• Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

  

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• Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.

  

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• How is a boy’s mind to expand if he does not ask questions, and who should be so well able to answer his questions as his father?

  

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• When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

  

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• But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Legacy