David Johansen Quotes

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

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• I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Many
  • Features
  • Borderline

• As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Challenges

• We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Information

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Up
  • Me
  • Talent

• In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Children
  • Black
  • Community

• Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Singing
  • Plan
  • Profession

• I have a relatively good track record.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Good
  • Record
  • Track

• I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Run
  • Conservative

• I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Dream

• One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Reasons
  • Pretend

• The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Power
  • Joy

• If you're caught acting, nobody believes you.

  

  Lillian Gish

• It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. lf we are united, we may be able to produce a world in which our children and other people's children will be safe.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Hope

• My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my music career at all.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I wanted my closet to look like a boutique.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons

• I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Family
  • Support

• I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

  

  David Dinkins
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Good
  • English

• But I do believe there are certain principles that are universal. I think that all people want basic dignity and want basic freedom, and want to be able to worship as they please without being discriminated against, or they should be able to speak their mind about an important issue pertaining to their community without being arrested.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Wisdom
  • Loss

• It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

  

  David Johansen