Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
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As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
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My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.
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People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.
