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I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs.

Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same ... not worse ... better.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.'

Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too ...

What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts.

No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.

If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs,

I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.

Live well - respire frequently.

I like to approach every day like it's the only day I will ever have.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

Men want success and sex. Women want everything.

I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered,

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

There's an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.

Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe ... get your act together.

Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.

I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound.

Women are from Mars, men have a penis

I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

I have sold my soul to the devil.

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

There are no limitations to any of our dreams.

A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

You have to understand that nothing appeals to everybody.

Imagine there are no men in life,

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, do or do not. There is no 'try'

Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity.

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

People are only what we believe them to be.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography.