I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.

Mick Jagger

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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

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desire trying needs

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

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brainwashed matter people

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

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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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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

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inspiration mind dream

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

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Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

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growing-up wise thinking

A good thing never ends.

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good-things ends

It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.

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okay long

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

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actors president want

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

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I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

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singing stupid complaining

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

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I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

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four running years

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

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knighthood anarchy

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

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pages care long

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

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brilliant knows

Time is on my side, yes it is.

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sides time

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

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roots knows sky

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

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