Keith Richards Quotes
I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
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I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
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GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
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When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it was like people wanted to stone me, it was that bad. People thought of video games as kind of a bad thing in society. Now, people that come to interview me, they have grown up with video games, and they know what they are; they've experienced it.
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One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'
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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
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I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.
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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.
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Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.
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Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?
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Men like clothes they can wear to work and afterwards. They don't want things to be complicated.
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There's been roles that I have turned down. There's no rule book or handbook... It's just... whatever I'm comfortable with.
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Look at Cillian Murphy: 'Batman,' 'Tron'... those are some heavy-hitting franchises. But he works his way around it. He manages to have a great career and a great life.
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If you put your mind to it, anything is possible.
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Criticism pretty much follows anything anyone ever does. So, anytime anyone ever writes a song, plays a show, or does whatever they do, there's going to be a certain amount of criticism because that's kind of what happens.
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I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
