Gene Klein (Gene Simmons) Quotes

Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey . . . it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  

  Jack Hanna
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• People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

  

  Dan Scanlon
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• As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
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• When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Liberty
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• Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

  

  Ovid
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• I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

  

  Olivia Culpo
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• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
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• I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

  

  Sam Phillips
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• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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• It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

  

  Patch Adams
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• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• You can take it for granted that I am not going to waste any time thinking about giving up how happy I am at Borussia, in the city of Dortmund, and with this team.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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• Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
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• Unlike some viruses, we don't know what the natural reservoir is for Ebola. A lot of people think it's bats, but it's still very controversial; it could have been circulating in insects, in an environment, or in individuals.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• I've had every haircut you could possibly imagine: mullet, tail, dreadlocks, afro, crew cut. It's always been an expression of who I am.

  

  Marc Forgione

• Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Economics
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• Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey . . . it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
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