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.

Keith Richards The Rolling Stones

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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.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.

  

  Igor Luksic
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Friends
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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.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
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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.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Passion
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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.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
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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.

  

  Aaron Johnson
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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.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Live
  • Family
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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.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Playing
  • Early
  • Bars

• No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Children
  • City
  • Child

• I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Men
  • Think
  • Faithful

• A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Car
  • Gun

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Answers

• 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.

  

  Kai Bird
  • War
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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.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.

  

  Alan Borovoy
  • Heaven
  • Hell
  • Reducing

• There's nothing wrong with the fashion industry. What's wrong is changing yourself for something you don't really care about just to get somewhere faster.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Care
  • Changing
  • Fashion Industry

• The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole? Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself... Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • World
  • Love
  • Lord

• When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Wise

• Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Ideas
  • Audience
  • Originals

• 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.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Reason
  • Hell
  • Alive