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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Home," he repeated. "Home is where the heart is. Why don't you leave yours here? I'll take very good care of it.
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I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, buying a flashy 10-speed bike from China. Are you kidding me?
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Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.
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The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.
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When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
