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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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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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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Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.
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I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.
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Life is not perfect, individuals will always be flawed, but empathy – the sheer inability to see those around them as anything other than people too – conquers all, in the end.
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Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.
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In the mid-1980s, there was a grassroots desire for American culture. Maybe it was not a definite harbinger to what was to come in terms of the fall of the Soviet Union, but it certainly gave a heads up to the global merging of the retail culture.
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To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
