Keith Richards Quotes
I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Everything you do is an opportunity cost. Learn to say 'No'
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The New York Times is busy sucking the teat of the major studios. They twist themselves into a pretzel when Kumar and Schmumar Go to White Castle Part III. They say, 'Oh, the farts are such a statement about American culture! It's such great satire!' It's bullshit. Troma paved the road for farts! But we don't exist.
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I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.
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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
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But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.
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A negative mind will never give you a positive life.
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If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.
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Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
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I might do a solo album, maybe do covers, or do an acoustic thing. No Sex Pistols tours, nothing!
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If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
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The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.
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Society is going to judge you no matter what you do.
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Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
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I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
