Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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In as much as any invisible, unbelievable, unknowable fictional character is, yes.
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'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true. (tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus)
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You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
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Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.
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I look for stories everywhere.
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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
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The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.
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Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.
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One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy of meditation.
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Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.
