David Johansen Quotes
As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.
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Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
