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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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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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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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
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You’ll never stumble upon the unexpected if you stick only to the familiar.
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My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
