Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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You win and you're in; you lose and you're out. We've been in that situation the past four weeks, ever since the three (consecutive) losses (in November).
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You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.
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Vince Russo knows about as much about wrestling as Eric Bischoff does.
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For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.
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We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.