David Johansen Quotes
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.
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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin
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Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.
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I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...
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George, it has been seven months today since your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, my big boy, my hero, my best-friend: Casey.
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I have a lot of respect for the musical theater plays.
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By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
