Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!
Quotes to Explore
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.
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All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.
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The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.
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I think comedy evolves constantly. I reinvent myself all the time. I always find a way to entertain myself because I truly believe you have to entertain yourself in order to relate it the right way to your audience.
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I'm just a person. I'm not anything!
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And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.
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To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
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I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!
