Robert Wyatt Quotes
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
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Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
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Fame gives you a high.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
