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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I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.
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Newcomers should be put in an established position where the expectations are known and help is available. New major assignments should mainly go to people whose behaviors and habits are well known and who have already earned trust and credibility.
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Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters.
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My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.
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I think television defeats ventriloquism.
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Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'
