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David Bowie Quotes

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: January 8, 1947 - January 10, 2016

Topics

Me Writing Run Seem Away Something

I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back.

Woman Think Back Feeling She Hold

Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.

Family Growing Up Growing Know Up

It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I'm so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.

Control Destiny Better Common Sense

I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

John James Audubon

Work Nature Failure Good Style Best

I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.

Experience Me Meaning Long Person

I always have the same problem when I try to buy something straight off the rack: If I put on a medium, it's perfectly fitted in the torso, but the sleeves are too short. If it's a large, the sleeves are long enough, but it's too baggy. So made-to-measure suits are especially important for me because I'm 6'2'' and so skinny.

Me Suits Short Problem Enough Long

I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story's end, he'd be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly... bring him back again.

Story Thought End Someone Doing Him

I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.

Jonas Armstrong

Saying Remember Look Teachers Never

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Looks Town Tramp Modelled

In all these years, I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia. Because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop.

Sergio Mattarella

Freedom Present Mafia Need Always

The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.

Marianne Williamson

Alone Mind Conflict Thinking True

People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.

People Slow Feel You Know Ignorant

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