Charlie Watts Quotes
The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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My diet is very kale-heavy. It's so nutrient-dense. I stay away from fake processed stuff.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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It's very hard to juggle a science fair project as well as your schoolwork.
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I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.
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The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
