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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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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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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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
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Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.
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I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.
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I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in Heller's case, because what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns and so they wanted people with guns to safely store them. And the court didn't accept that reasonable regulation, but they've accepted many others. So I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.
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If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
