David Johansen Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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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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I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn't afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops.
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Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
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It's a simple liberating reality - the best things in life are mine for the choosing.
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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
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You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.
