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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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.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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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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Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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Some people will find any reason to hate. Don’t waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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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.
