Keith Richards Quotes
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.
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Boxing is a noble sport.
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There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
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Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
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The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.
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The images you see in media are vital to impacting not just what the world sees in terms of who can be a computer scientist, who can be techie, who can be a geek or who can be a creator; it also impacts the girls and what they internalize.
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Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
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I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
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Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
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It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
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I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine that being taken away from me.
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During the season... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
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I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.
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Approximately two thirds of our total civil aerospace workforce is in the UK, and so that's a good first proxy for the number of people who will be unfortunately losing their jobs in the UK.
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What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
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I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.
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I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
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I'm an unpure purist, something like that.
