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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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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In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.
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You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
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The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
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I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.
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I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.
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I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
