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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• 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
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• 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
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• The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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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.

  

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• 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
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• 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.

  

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• I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

  

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• It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.

  

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• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

  

  Vandana Shiva
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• Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can't take it with them.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.
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• 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