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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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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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
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I thought for a minute about an actor and a musician simultaneously, but I think that's always very loaded as an actor when you become a "slash," and you do an actor "slash" anything. You better be really, really good at it.
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I want to make the most out of the word 'fame.' I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work.
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To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
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No doubt you would deeply regret any error you might make in the hurry of the moment; but you wouldn't regret it half as much as I should! However, I suppose we've got to trust somebody, as we go through life, and your plan seems, on the whole, as good a one as any.
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I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
