David Johansen Quotes

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'

David Johansen

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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.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
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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.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
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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.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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• There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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• Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

  

  Gao Xingjian
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• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

  

  Obie Trice
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• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • 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.

  

  Barry Mann
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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.

  

  Radhanath Swami
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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.

  

  Gail Kelly
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• Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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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!

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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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!

  

  Eddie Izzard
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• The world went insane before I did, I'm just adapting to the new reality.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Reality
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• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
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• When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Time
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• I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

  

  Richard Jenkins
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• By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

  

  Jim Gerlach
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• Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'

  

  David Johansen