David Johansen Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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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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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
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Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?
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Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
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I have scored some big-time goals. I've done well in Algarve Cups. I've done well in World Cup and Olympic qualifiers, Olympics. In big games when we're playing top-five teams. But yet, you never see my face or my name out there. And it has frustrated me my entire career.
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You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.
