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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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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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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If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.
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Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
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Most of my friends are non-cyclists. They are interested and proud of my achievements, but, equally, if I stopped tomorrow, they wouldn't say much about it!
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Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'
