Keith Richards Quotes

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Keith Richards The Rolling Stones

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• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Father
  • Catholic

• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Long
  • Success
  • Kind

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Health
  • Government
  • Care

• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Air
  • Thoughts

• I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Humor

• In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Ideas
  • Say
  • Project

• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I got to tell you, guys that have sex with each other's anal cavities - how can we offend guys that actually have anal sex? Don't you think that might offend some of us who think that's despicable?

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Sex

• Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Money
  • Boy

• Don't tell me I haven't been good to you.Don't tell me I have never been there for you.Don't tell me whyNothing is good enough.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Good

• In the old dramas it was love that had to be sacrificed to painful duty. In the modern instance the sacrifice is at the shrine of what William James called 'the Bitch Goddess, Success.' Love is to be abandoned for the stern pursuit of newspaper notoriety and dollars.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Success
  • Sacrifice
  • Goddess

• Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Up
  • Death
  • Ignore

• In the last 20 years, thanks to your hard work, polio has declined by 99 percent. In 1988, 350,000 people got polio. By 2008, the number was down to just a couple of thousand. 'Bill Gates - Rotary International' Bill & Melinda Gates foundation (21 January 2009)

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Work
  • Couple

• Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Good
  • Happy

• Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Heaven
  • Idea
  • Christianity

• If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.

  

  Charles Seife
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stupid

• They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Two

• I haven't stopped smoking...anything...

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Stopped Smoking