David Johansen Quotes
In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
David Johansen
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
Jack Keane
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
Yasmine Al Masri
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
Randy Pausch
To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
Taylor Kinney
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
J. K. Simmons
Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
Naftali Bennett
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
Baz Luhrmann
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
Gary Hume
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Edgar Degas
I have very eclectic tastes.
Carly Fiorina
Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
Abraham Lincoln
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
Harold Wilson
Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.
Alia Bhatt
When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.
Lauren Conrad
One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism.
Yuri Andropov
My strokes are safer when I hit full power. They are unsafe when I hold back; it's more that I force myself to go full power all the time.
Dominic Thiem
In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
David Johansen
