Robert Wilson Quotes

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

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• I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Space
  • Learn

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Virtue
  • Take

• The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vision

• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

• You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • World
  • Love
  • Know

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• 'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Good
  • Game
  • Always

• For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I'm good at keeping secrets.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Good
  • Secrets
  • Keeping

• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • War
  • Peace
  • Last

• It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was fucking wrong, wasn't I? You see, because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, AND THE BLIZZARD WOULD HIT AGAIN!

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Travel

• I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Work

• Bush is no conservative.

  

  Bill Kristol

• Long-term economic growth depends mainly on nonmonetary factors such as population growth and workforce participation, the skills and aptitudes of our workforce, the tools at their disposal, and the pace of technological advance. Fiscal and regulatory policies can have important effects on these factors.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Growth

• The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

  

  Ned Rorem
  • Music

• Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Life

• In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Animal
  • Survival

• I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Change
  • Community

• The SFPD has had a lot of issues, and I think one of the issues that needs to be addressed is the racist text messages that have been passed back and forth between PD members, not only talking about the community, but also talking about colleagues that work in the same department as them.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Work
  • Community
  • Text

• I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.

  

  Dean Geyer
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Guy
  • Nice

• I think, in the eyes of a lot of circles, especially within football, I'm the soft guy. But I'm fine with being the soft, healthy guy.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Guy
  • Eyes
  • Football

• I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

  

  Robert Wilson
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Museums