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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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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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 have never used steroids. Period.
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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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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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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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(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Marriage is a wonderful thing.
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I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.
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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.
