David Johansen Quotes
I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.
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You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
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It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.
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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
