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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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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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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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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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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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. Yet only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
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I have this prominent feature on my face - I don't know if you've noticed - but, well, they're my lips. They tend to walk into a room before I do because they're larger than average! So Chapstick's a big one for me.
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If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.
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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.
