David Johansen Quotes
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.
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A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.
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The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
