Keith Richards Quotes
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
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Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.
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When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck Berry...
