Mick Jagger Quotes

I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones

• Elvis
• Inhibitions
• Gene Vincent

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• There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Good
  • Political
  • Decision

• The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Support
  • Value
  • Talent

• Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Die

• I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Dumb

• Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.

  

  Brad Wenstrup
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.

  

  Ken Jeong
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Independent

• There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • Different

• Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

  

  Jim Bishop

• Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.

  

  Elise Andrew
  • People
  • Science
  • Opportunity

• Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Reality

• I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

  

  Chris Young
  • Music

• I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.

  

  Betty Shabazz
  • Important

• I will encourage my kids in everything that life has to offer.

  

  Kim Fields
  • Life
  • Kids

• Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

  

  Frank Dobson
  • People
  • Death
  • Health

• I expect there will be more virtual schools.

  

  Betsy DeVos

• Once the church is ready to associate with instituted power it is obliged to associate with all and sundry forms of the state. The scandal is that each time the church seeks to justify both its adaptation and the existing power. It continues to legitimize the state and to be an instrument of its propaganda.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Time
  • Power
  • Church

• Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.

  

  Bernard Fanning
  • New York
  • Strange
  • Complaining

• I remember that, before John Lennon died, everyone was saying that Rolling Stone couldn't do good reporting anymore. But when he died, they wrote this amazing issue, as they should have about Lennon. They did that when Elvis died, too.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• You don't let it be a distraction. That is not what you do. There are going to be things that happen and you don't focus on those things. You focus on getting the football team ready to play and you handle the other things up front the way we do it.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Up
  • Team
  • Focus

• O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Mother
  • Virtue
  • Humility

• Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • Book
  • Taught
  • Courses

• I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Elvis
  • Inhibitions
  • Gene Vincent