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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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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Talk to any black person in my age group, and they'll say 'A Different World' is why they went to college. The show literally changed my life, and it boggles my mind that it doesn't get the kind of love it deserves.
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The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.
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In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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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.
