Top 42 James St. James Quotes
#2. People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again
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#3. Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
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#5. The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.
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#6. No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.
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#7. There are times when the world slips out of control. It's like an accident that is happening too quickly , and you can't stop it, you can't think about it, you have no choice but to lean back and watch as everything changes forever.
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#8. I don't know how you look at the inside of your head - what metaphor you choose - but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful.
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#9. As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not part of the scene anymore. I'll always be interested in what's happening downtown, and I try and keep up with the changing faces on social media.
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#10. So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start ... )
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#12. The Club Kids were about fun. Wild, messy fun - the more debauched, the better.
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#13. I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek' article about the emerging downtown club scene, and, well, that was it for NYU. I was off and running.
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#15. It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter what you look like. I mean, if you have a hunchback just throw a little glitter on it, honey, and go dancing!
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#16. Getting dressed was always the best part of every night.
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#17. How bloated we all are to think that our childhoods matter, that anybody really cares about our little lives.
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#18. I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.
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#19. Every degree of power involves a corresponding degree of freedo from good and evil.
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#20. I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.
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#21. I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.
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#23. When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.
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#24. You see, I just love analogies. Give me a good old analogy any day.
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#25. If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down
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#26. Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.
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#29. And what do we have here? A scary monster, cowboy, and a fairy princess! Here's a hit of ecstasy, run along now.
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#30. I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit.
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#31. Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.
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#32. We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and anyone could be star. Rents were cheap, creativity was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years away. That was the era the Club Kids came into.
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#33. Watch out for the average
they're usually hiding something big.
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#35. We didn't wish
wishes are wasted ...
We didn't hope
because our future was inevitable ...
And we didn't pray
we were on our own.
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#36. But if familiarity breeds contempt, it also fosters a bond -
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#37. I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar
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#38. I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the only place open all night. Truman Capote in the frozen foods. Andy Warhol over in vegetables.
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#39. There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.
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#40. You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it ... you're able to say private things when you're writing.
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#41. When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.
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#42. I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
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