"Bowie's obviously my biggest influence."

-- Scott Weiland

#Influence Quotes #Bowie Quotes

“One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.”
“There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
“Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.”

Source : "Tales of Moonlight and Rain". Book by Ueda Akinari, www.newyorker.com. 1776.
“My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.”

Source : "Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace". Book by Ilse Hess, 1982.
“In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.”
“There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.”

Source : "Macklemore's Brand Of Socially Conscious Rap". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. November 23, 2012.
“Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne. [...] And of course, by resisting Hitler, he saved Europe and perhaps the world.”

Source : "Churchill’s Finest Hour". www.city-journal.org. November 24, 2009.

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