Robert Wyatt Quotes
I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.
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You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.
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Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.
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If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to?
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The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
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As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
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An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.
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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
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In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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His star will forever shine.
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I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.
