Keith Richards Quotes
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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Love is a complicated emotion because you can learn something or hear something that goes against what you have come to know personally. It can be very challenging to what you believe.
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When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
