Robert Palmer Quotes
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include all minorities. But if the protection of one minority against another minority is what is happening, then I worry about that.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.
