Keith Richards Quotes
To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.
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When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
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In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.
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Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.
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I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
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The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned that spark. And the nice thing with my band and this repertoire, which is a complete joy, is that we go beyond just playing chords and melody. It is music that can stretch out.
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Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.
