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

• One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Character
  • Song

• 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

• The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

  

  Norman O. Brown
  • Body
  • Creation
  • Substance

• I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • People
  • War

• I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

  

  John Leguizamo
  • Up
  • Latin

• The joint development and cross-licensing agreement ... let's us avoid quibbling about technical details and move forward quickly.

  

  George Fisher Cannibal Corpse
  • Development
  • Forward
  • Details

• It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Good
  • Live
  • Success

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

  

  David Johansen