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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When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."
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I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.
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Not everybody has to work on the big problems, but if nobody does, they don't get solved.
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When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.
