David Johansen Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.
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Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
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In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names.
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I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.
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You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.
