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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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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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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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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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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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self – forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.
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Love is not an emotion, it’s your very existence
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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.
