Keith Richards Quotes
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
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When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there.
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It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.
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Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
