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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It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry Christmas, Everybody" by Slade, which is a rock group - a rock-pop group who are very big over there.
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People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
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In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.
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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
