Mick Jagger Quotes
When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
Quotes to Explore
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino -
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg -
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel -
I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
Victoria Legrand Beach House -
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Wayne Dyer
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
Inga Cadranel -
Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
Randy Pausch -
Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
Hale Irwin -
The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
Campbell Scott
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
Eartha Kitt -
I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
Patricia Polacco -
You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.
Maggie Carey -
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
Barton Gellman -
I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
T. Boone Pickens -
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
Dan Quinn -
I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
It's nice getting to play a different version of yourself. You sign on for a show and think you're just going to play one character for however many years, so it's nice, for an actor, to have a little bit of fun.
Candice Patton -
When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones