David Johansen Quotes
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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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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There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
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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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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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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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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
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Engel & Volkers is international, high end and associated with the very best in real estate which is well represented by our new Park Avenue address.
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
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Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.
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Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'
