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 sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
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I remember as a kid that I was always physically fit.
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I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
