Charlie Watts Quotes
I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I've always lived in the moment.
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It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!
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Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.
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I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
