Mick Jagger Quotes

In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They've got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.

Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • History
  • Death

• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Act

• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Doing

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Lawyer

• I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Publish

• 'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Play
  • Like
  • Paradox

• I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Forever

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Photography

• Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Society
  • Reality

• Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Hollywood

• My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Problem
  • Very

• On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Two
  • Abortion
  • Fence

• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
  • Sleep
  • Astronauts

• In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.

  

  Van Jones
  • Black
  • Community
  • Color

• As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Always
  • Almost

• Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Family
  • Society
  • Education

• The appeal to heaven breaks off.The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness.It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Fall
  • Heaven
  • Dying

• What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They've got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Society
  • England
  • Drugs