Keith Richards Quotes
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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I have never been graceful, never been elegant.
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I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.
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When I think of my own struggles as a musician, I'm most proud of the chances I took. My style not only allowed for the possibility of failure, it practically ensured it. But this approach gave me confidence.
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Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.
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Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.
