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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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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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 knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.
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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.
