Robert Wyatt Quotes
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.
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If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
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Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then. I’ll give it to my family, I’ll give it to my work - but I will not give it to a man right now.
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I believe this judgment should firmly convince any trade unionist that it is useless hoping for justice in the courts of this land. The only way we are going to obtain justice in my view is by fighting for democracy as our forefathers did in establishing the trade union and Labour movements.
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After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes. I believe that any system which produces that result violates my basic rights as a citizen and is inconsistent with the laws of the United States and of the several States.
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All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - 'Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.'
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It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
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I started slow, and eventually I started working out 4 to 5 days a week. We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all.
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
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What I admire is people who are grounded and resistant to all kinds of whisperings. Kimi Raikkonen, for example. You may like him or not, but he lives his way. He does the things he has identified as worthy for him and he is not trying to be everybody’s darling. At least he doesn’t give that impression. He is straightforward and honest and he tells you if he has a bad day. Period. He is real. He’s not political. He’s never up to something. If he doesn’t want to tell you something he will say so and not hum and haw. He doesn’t beat around the bush, never coming to the point.
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The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.
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'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
