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 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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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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I myself have raised plenty of questions about Sarah Palin, much to the annoyance of the McCain campaign. But those questions have been about her qualifications and experience, never her appearance.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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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.
