Irmin Schmidt Quotes
“We never cared about what people expected. I always imagined if one day we would go onstage again, people would think: ‘No, this isn’t Can. This is another group – we are in the wrong place.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
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I will fully engage myself to maintain CERN's excellence in all its attributes, with the help of everybody, including CERN Council, staff and users from all over the world.
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Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
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The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
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When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.
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What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
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When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.
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I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.
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“We never cared about what people expected. I always imagined if one day we would go onstage again, people would think: ‘No, this isn’t Can. This is another group – we are in the wrong place.
