David Johansen Quotes
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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Corporations are the new dictators.
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The highest state is laughter.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
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It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.
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I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
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As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.
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Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.
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I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do.
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Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better non-breaker than me, and that's Will Forte from 'SNL.' You can not make that guy break. I'll break eventually - Will Forte will never break.
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I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
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Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
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A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
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I have never applied for a share in Tehelka.
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I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.
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Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.
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I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.
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Sleep, my little one, sleep.
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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
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When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
