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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There's no regrets for me.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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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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I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
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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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I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.
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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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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'
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Show gratitude.
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The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.
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I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.
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I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
