Keith Richards Quotes

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Keith Richards The Rolling Stones

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• My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Me
  • Look
  • Everything

• To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Business
  • Better

• When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mistake
  • Try
  • Blame

• There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Music
  • Best

• Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Educational
  • Facilities

• Equality in education is my number one battle.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Education
  • Equality
  • Battle

• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Why
  • Me

• No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • Person
  • Speak
  • Actions

• I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Cool
  • Like
  • Really

• As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Different
  • Expectations

• I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Patriotism
  • Height
  • July

• I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Together
  • Help

• For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone's mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Political

• 'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Power
  • Father
  • Society

• In reality, I'm very restless, and I get bored very easily. It's the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Career
  • Reality
  • Bored

• Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Imagination

• For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

  

  Chris Moneymaker

• If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

  

  Dean Karnazes

• I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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