Charlie Watts Quotes

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones

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• And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Grow
  • Dawn

• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • Today
  • Struggle

• I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Intelligence
  • Reform
  • Context

• Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.

  

  Nas
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Praise

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Like

• Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Singing

• The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Washington
  • Legislative

• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Car
  • Listen
  • Rather

• Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Great
  • Warm
  • Velvet

• Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Time
  • History
  • Unique

• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

  

  Larry Elder
  • America
  • Man
  • Dad

• Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Run

• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Great
  • Understand
  • India

• If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Like
  • Bored
  • Characters

• If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Help
  • Team
  • Focus

• I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Life
  • Up
  • Black

• I rode on a plane a couple years ago with Snow Patrol and didn't know who the hell they were. They said they were big fans of mine and were playing Madison Square Garden. And they let me listen to one of their records on their iPod. I started to weep.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Couple
  • Garden
  • Snow

• The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Missing

• Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • May
  • Together
  • Man

• The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
  • American
  • Best

• I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones