Gene Simmons (Gene Klein) Quotes
You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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I know about raising money.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
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I'm known for my handwritten notes.
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Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.
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I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
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I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.
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I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
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All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.
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You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.
