Robert Wyatt Quotes
Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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Few people know how to be old.
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And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.
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If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.
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By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
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Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.
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I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
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Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.
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I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.
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We derive confidence as women from what we wear.
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
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If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be ove.
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Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
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If it's got a beard or a battery, you're going to have trouble with it.
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People abusing their power makes me see red.
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Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.
