Keith Richards Quotes

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

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• I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.

  

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• I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

  

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• If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

  

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• Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

  

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• It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.

  

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• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

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• I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

  

  Oscar Taveras
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• Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

  

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• One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  

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• America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.

  

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• Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.

  

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• Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.

  

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• Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

  

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• I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

  

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• Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

  

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• Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first.

  

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• I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

  

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• It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.

  

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• Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a different animal. People are being served nachos and there's a blender going off in the background.

  

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• What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Musician
  • Written
  • Tombstone