Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.
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Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.
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The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.
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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; -& they are the life, the soul of reading; - take them out of this book for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them.
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Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.
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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
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We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.
