Keith Richards Quotes
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
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I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
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I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
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Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.
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I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.
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Skyler, you are the love of my life, I hope you know that. Walter junior, you're my big man. There are... there are going to be some things, things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. I just want you to know that, no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.
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Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.
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We can ask ourselves daily what we have done to make the world a better place, to make someone smile, to help someone to feel more secure, etc. It's the simple things which have the greatest effect. We must never underestimate the strength of a smile or act of kindness.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
