Mick Jagger Quotes
Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.
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House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand house.
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Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.
