Mick Jagger Quotes
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.
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We accept that there are legitimate casus belli: acts or situations 'provoking or justifying war'. The present debate feels off-centre, and faintly unreal, because the US and the UK are going to war for a new set of reasons (partly undisclosed) while continuing to adduce the old set of reasons (which in this case do not cohere or even overlap).
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The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.
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Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
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Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
