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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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
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History is a game played backwards only.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
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To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
