Quote #16

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. (February 4, 2002 interview by Terry Gross with Gene Simmons on NPR's Fresh Air)

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  5. I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.
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  8. When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. Bu…

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