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There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.

David Bowie

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.
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Appearance Choice Expression Perceive Reputation Way
The minute you know you’re on safe ground, you’re dead.
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Death Ground Safety
I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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Buddhism Influence Myself Quite Study Young
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
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Ghost Hands Music Myself Understand
I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn’t talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.
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Emotional Father Love Rule Talk Togetherness
If you come from art, you’ll always be art.
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Art Artist Self Love Yourself
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
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Myself Old Question Time
I’m a thinker not a talker.
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Myself Talk Thinking
I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.
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Age Live Man Mortal Myself Potential
Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.
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Advice Save Talk Time Yourself
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out.
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Alive Lose Way Wonder Yourself
Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
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Appearance Dance Fashion Instagram Captions Shoes
I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don’t like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don’t wanna hear happy albums… and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.
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Album Gravity Happiness Hate Isolation Lonely Music Myself Sad
You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
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Greatness Marriage Modeling Thinking World Yourself
Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
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Choice People Run Silence Small Togetherness
I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
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Fame Reward Thinking Yourself
I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
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Invention Myself Original Time Woman
Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.
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Best Evolution Moments Travel
It was fun to be clever.
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Clever Fun One Liner
Trust nothing but your own experience.
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Experience Independent Trust Yourself
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
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Average Fame Interest Man
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
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Body Challenge Death Disturb Life Yourself
There’s a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I’ve used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.
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Dreams Myself Quite Relax Sleep Stage
There’s a starman waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds.
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Blow Man Mindset Ourselves Stardom Thinking Wait
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
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Expression Happiness Joy Method Myself
It’s a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there’s a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that’s how some of us conduct our lives.
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Build Compulsion Life Live Notice Ourselves Pattern
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
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Feeling God Man Mindset Myself Presence State World

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