Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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Everybody has a dysfunctional family.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I write everything out in longhand in one fast go. And then I throw out the first few and start over again. By the end of the first draft, the whole thing's messy and disgusting and horrible, but you really understand the foundational stuff.
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'Are you all right, sir?' asked Hezekiah.'Just fighting over old battles in my mind,' said John. 'It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.'
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Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
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Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.
