Robert Wyatt Quotes
It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
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It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.
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I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
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It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.
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Only if you aspire for more will you achieve more.
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It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.
