David Johansen Quotes
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
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I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.
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As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
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I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so... I feel such a deep connection to it.
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I, along with something like 5 million other people, insure to enable me to go into hospital on the day I want; at the time I want, and with a doctor I want.
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'Salutations my niggas, I'm aware that I'm different, you can still keep it hood while you're smoking just listen, it don't matter your racejust take a blunt to the face'
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To cherish the life of the world.
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I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.
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Inaugural speeches are supposed to be huge and stirring. Presidents haul our heroes onstage, from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. George W. Bush brought the Liberty Bell. They use history to make greatness and achievements seem like something you can just take down from the shelf.
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I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.
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Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
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"I can see in the dark." "That may be so, Mulla. But if it is true, why do you sometimes carry a candle at night?" "To prevent other people from bumping into me."
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You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.
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When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.
