Mick Jagger Quotes
For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.
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I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.
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I don't know what people think of me.
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I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.
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Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities. In every other country, they are a guest.
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.
