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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
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Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
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And the shark he has his teeth and
There they are for all to see
And Macheath he has his knife but
No one knows where it may be.The Threepenny Opera The Moritat of Mackie the Knife in Prologue, p. 3 -
Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.
Tim Teeman, The importance of being Childish, The Times, 2006-12-02 -
Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
Rolling Stone interview (2005) -
Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
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He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
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I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
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I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
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I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.
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I saw a picture of Lou Reed and David Bowie standing together and it looked like an AD for jerky.
Radio From Hell (December 4, 2006) -
I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.
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I was never particularly fond of my voice.
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I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
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Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.
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She went away, she cut me like a knife
Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life
In just a glance, down here on magic street
Loves a fool's dance
And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.Magic (2007) Girls in Their Summer Clothes
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