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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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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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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Waiting for the miracleThere's nothing left to do.I haven't been this happysince the end of World War II.
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
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We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
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I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
