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I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.

David Bowie

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.
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Cold Fear Feeling Intimation People Touch
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
Never bored, so I’ll never get old.
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Age Boredom Myself Old One Liner Perspective Thinking
It was fun to be clever.
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Clever Fun One Liner
The media is either our salvation or our death.
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Death Media Ourselves Salvation
Rock has always been the devil’s music… I believe that rock & roll is dangerous… I feel that we’re only heralding something even darker than ourselves.
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Believe Darkness Devil Music Ourselves
In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.
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Fear Love Peace Seek Yourself
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
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
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
Look up here, I’m in heaven.
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Heaven Myself
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
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Aloud Listening Secret Thinking
It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I’m home.
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Alive Artist Home Myself Sad See
My sexual nature is irrelevant. I’m an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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Actor Fragment Myself Nature Play Role Sexual
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
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Average Fame Interest Man
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
I’m a thinker not a talker.
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Myself Talk Thinking
I’m very shy. That’s probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
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Drugs heavy Myself Reason
I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.
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Feeling Myself Need Qualify Work
I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.
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Chemical Fire Myself
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
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Easy heavy Myself Writing
You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn’t it popular?
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Day End Music Pieces Popular Work Yourself
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 can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race
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Lose Race Run Win Yourself
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
I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.
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Human Myself Need Response
Trust nothing but your own experience.
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Experience Independent Trust Yourself

I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.

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