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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Be obscure clearly.
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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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I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
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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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Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
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The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.
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If our expected partners in the negotiations in the framework of the road map do not uphold their commitments, we will preserve the Israeli interest in every way.
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Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.
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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.
