Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
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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.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.
Felicity Kendal
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
Rachael Taylor
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
Federico Fellini
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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
Vera Wang
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In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
Eduardo Chillida
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Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.
Blaine Pardoe
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
Yuna
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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.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister
Motörhead
