Robert Wyatt Quotes

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

Robert Wyatt

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• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Willing
  • Wiser

• Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Life
  • Peace

• I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Reality
  • Fake

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • Interesting

• You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good government, and I got it done - just like my running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The people of New Mexico reelected me by a comfortable margin. Ditto for Weld.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Learn
  • Relax

• Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinion

• You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • You
  • Circumstances

• Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • People
  • Up
  • Science

• WhatsApp has over a billion customers, and they are overwhelmingly good people. But in that billion customers are terrorists and criminals... It's a huge feature of terrorist tradecraft.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Good

• I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it's kind of cool being single.

  

  Breckin Meyer
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Relationship

• Candidates need to demonstrate strategic thinking and strong problem solving skills. And, just as importantly, they need to know when and how to ask for help.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Strong

• There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

  

  Maurice Flanagan
  • People
  • Work
  • Walking

• However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • People
  • Life

• In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

  

  Kenneth H. Cooper
  • People
  • Heart
  • Age

• People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Serious

• I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Behavior
  • Speech
  • Shame

• I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Wish