Charlie Watts Quotes
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones
Quotes to Explore
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
Ralph Marston -
If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
Jack O'Connell -
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
Tavis Smiley -
I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
Lasse Hallstrom -
I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
Kajal Aggarwal -
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
Dana Carvey
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
Walter Chrysler -
Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
Finn Wittrock -
There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
Dan Hicks -
God does arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
Barry Ritholtz -
I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
Warwick Davis
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I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.
Harrison Ford -
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
Vince Cable -
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden -
I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.
Vanilla Ice -
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
Maggie Smith -
Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
Parker Posey
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I almost turned down '8 Mile.' I was due to start 'ER,' and I learned they really wanted me to be in '8 Mile.' I didn't know Eminem; I just knew he was a rapper and saw what everyone else saw in the media. I thought they were just trying to capitalize on his popularity.
Mekhi Phifer -
As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
Benjamin Booker -
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
Sting The Police -
I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.
Ben Okri -
There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.
Bat Masterson -
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones