Udo Dirkschneider Quotes
First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics and enough stories we have the lines to make titles. Then we collect all the ideas of everybody in the band and see which ideas fit together the best with the lyrics to get the right atmosphere. That's the way we compose.
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
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I would rather see a game where you play to feel happier and to make other people like you and to make the people you care about happy.
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Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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Daniel's pretty private, but being his friend I'd ask him "are you OK?' I'm just glad things are OK again and we're going on tour. I think finally we may be past that "teen band' crap and are now just "the Australian trio!
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There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
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First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics and enough stories we have the lines to make titles. Then we collect all the ideas of everybody in the band and see which ideas fit together the best with the lyrics to get the right atmosphere. That's the way we compose.
