David Johansen Quotes
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I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
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Never doubt that one person can make a difference.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
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This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
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I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.
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I'm a huge Stereolab fan.
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The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they're deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.
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Freedom has no history.
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Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'
