Gene Klein (Gene Simmons) Quotes
My mother was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. My mother’s alive and well, but only because of America. Without America’s military, the world would be in deep… fill-in-the-blank. I’m forever grateful for that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good... I don't think I'm a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they'll come back and help you if you need it.
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Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes, And blesseth her with his two happy hands.
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One day, I hope to have a pot bellied pig and a wombat as pets.
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I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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My mother was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. My mother’s alive and well, but only because of America. Without America’s military, the world would be in deep… fill-in-the-blank. I’m forever grateful for that.
