Irmin Schmidt Quotes
Different parts, when they come together, it creates something new. And that’s what Can is. It’s not the sum of us four – it’s something new.Irmin Schmidt Can
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
Youssou N'Dour -
Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
Caitlin Doughty -
All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
Karen Salmansohn -
I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
Jacki Weaver -
I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
Mahesh Babu -
One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
S. J. Rozan
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
Val Kilmer -
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nancy Astor -
The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace Stevens -
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
Oliver Stone -
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
Beck Bennett
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
Laura Bush -
I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
Taylor Momsen -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen -
'Mahershala' is my nickname.
Mahershala Ali -
Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
Warren G
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
Louise Erdrich -
Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
Patricia Highsmith -
The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.
W. Averell Harriman -
There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Different parts, when they come together, it creates something new. And that’s what Can is. It’s not the sum of us four – it’s something new.
Irmin Schmidt Can