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I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

Mick Jagger

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Mick Jagger
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 26
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I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.
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Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.
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The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.
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Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.
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I can't get no satisfaction.
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I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.
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The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
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If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
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When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn't believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round - I mean you can't follow an act like that.
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