Robert Wyatt Quotes
In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with a lot of the countries with really difficult, impenetrable nationalist movements - countries that once had a big empire, like Turkey, England, or even in Italy, with the fascists in the middle of the last century. People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
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With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.
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Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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Something like 'Psycho,' which is this psychological thing that slowly, slowly, slowly builds, and actually it's a much more powerful reaction you have when it assumes that you're intelligent as you're watching it. I want them to make me believe that whatever's happening could really happen, and then it becomes much more frightening.
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In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with a lot of the countries with really difficult, impenetrable nationalist movements - countries that once had a big empire, like Turkey, England, or even in Italy, with the fascists in the middle of the last century. People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
