Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
If I hadn't been living here in America, do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.
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I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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The fact is, America needs energy and new energy infrastructure, and the Keystone XL pipeline will help us achieve that with good stewardship.
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The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in Israel. But America is vulnerable with 100,000 troops in Iraq and more than half of that in Afghanistan, and we depend heavily on access to Middle Eastern oil. We're sitting targets for debilitating Iranian retaliation.
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If I hadn't been living here in America, do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.
