Keith Richards Quotes
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.
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Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
