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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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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There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.
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Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
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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.
