Klaus Kinski Quotes
You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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I love to play music.
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
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I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
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Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.
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I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
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I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.
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I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it.
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Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
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Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.
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I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.
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American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.
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I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.
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When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?
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You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.