David Bowie

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• I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

  Interviewed in Q magazine (April 1990)

  • Fame

• I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

  Livewire interview (2002)

  • Music

• I get offered so many bad movies. And they’re all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.

  1983 Comment, quoted in Halliwell’s Who’s Who in the Movies 15th Edition (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 60

  • Comedy
  • Movies

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy