Ronnie Wood Quotes
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.
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The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.
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My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
