Charlie Watts Quotes
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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I hate celebrities.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
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When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever had any.
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On the retail side, I particularly want to emphasize the use of the unique ID, Aadhaar, in building individual credit histories. This will be the foundation of a revolution in retail credit.
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What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?
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I am sick as a horse.
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For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.
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The biggest challenge in making movies, boring but true answer is money - you never have enough, so everything gets bootstrapped to death! I learned not only how to be better filmmakers because of it but better janitors, better drivers and better negotiators with cops who wanted to shut me down. You have to get creative.
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The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.
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Sometimes, life just gets to me where I just get so frustrated to the point of tears. If my blood sugar drops too low, then I will get upset about anything. If too many things happen in a row, especially being on tour and getting ready to release all of these emotions into the world - I'm just an emotional person in general.
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To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
