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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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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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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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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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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Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.
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I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.
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We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.
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I would be uncomfortable raising the federal funds rate if readings on wage growth, core consumer prices, and other indicators of underlying inflation pressures were to weaken, if market-based measures of inflation compensation were to fall appreciably further, or if survey-based measures were to begin to decline noticeably.
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We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.
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I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.
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I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.
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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.
