Keith Richards Quotes

I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know?

Keith Richards The Rolling Stones

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• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
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  • Father
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• When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Me
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• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
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• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
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• I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Want
  • Irony
  • Mustache

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
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  • High

• Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Together
  • City

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Stand
  • U.S.

• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Performance
  • Ballet
  • Opera

• Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being honest, because we're human, and in our humanity there's a little fear.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Fear
  • Powerful
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• I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Songs
  • Mysterious

• I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
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  • Song

• I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Always
  • Difference
  • Director

• I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Entrepreneur
  • Accidental

• Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Love
  • Angels
  • Dispute

• It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Mind
  • Impossible
  • Rejection

• I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

  

  Matthew Broderick
  • Why

• When we started, there were KRAFTWERK and TANGERINE DREAM, and both bands also became very very strong internationally but in a different area, in a different field. They were doing, like, experimental kind of music, and KRAFTWERK were amazing, while we played just traditional rock.

  

  Klaus Meine Scorpions
  • Music
  • Different
  • Dream

• I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.

  

  Eleanor Catton

• Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

  

  Emily Procter
  • Mom

• I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know?

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Rock
  • Kiss