Mick Jagger Quotes
I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.
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I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.
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My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.
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Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
