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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

Keith Richards

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Keith Richards
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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