Ricky Gervais Quotes

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

I really didn't get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listening to 'Starman' and thinking it sounded like it was a song for kids, like a lullaby. The Thin White Duke is my favorite look that he created.

Victorian values…were the values when our country became great.

Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.

My style icon has always been David Bowie. Just because of the variety of images and looks he created.

I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.

I could really sink my teeth into a David Bowie documentary.

I would have loved to meet David Bowie.

My mum and dad are massive Bowie fans, so I grew up listening to his music.

Portugal is like Ziggy Stardust. The period is there, so you know that it's not the country, it's Portugal. The 'Man' states, 'He's the man.'

I do sort of question the notion that conservatives should try and turn America into a place where people can come from traditional societies and continue to be fully traditional in every sense.

I loved that television show Mad Men because it really was a reminder of what reality was back then.

It's interesting, I'm from a really conservative, suburban town, and a majority of my family are very patriarchal. I mean, I love my family members, but they're slightly misogynistic, very closed-minded. But I'm sure a lot of us have families like that.

I come from a small town, so there we have this habit of talking to rickshawallahs while you are making a trip. So when I moved to Bombay, people found it strange that I do that.

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.

I'm a massive Bowie fan, always have been.

David Bowie - I definitely knew some of his music as a teenager, but I didn't actually listen to his music as much until I was in my 20s.

David Bowie, who spent most of the '70s establishing himself as a master of psychological disguises, is spending the '80s trying to convince us that he's just a regular fella - or at least as close to one as a millionaire pop star can be.

It took me coming to the Midwest to realize I was the jerk. People are so nice here. They're so grounded.

Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust. How will I ever communicate with him?'

Rooming with six strangers and having my life taped for MTV's groundbreaking reality series, 'The Real World', in the nation's most liberal city was a formative experience for a young, Hispanic, conservative, Catholic girl from the Southwest.