Robert Wyatt Quotes

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

Robert Wyatt

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• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Children
  • Family
  • Free

• I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Powerful
  • Realize
  • Chips

• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Working
  • Start
  • Something

• Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Entrepreneur

• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Life
  • Man
  • Gardening

• I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Time
  • Bad

• I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Crazy
  • Got
  • Belt

• We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Black
  • Kind
  • Million

• I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Important
  • Think
  • Fairness

• When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Problem
  • Trade
  • Bank

• I don't think my father was my mentor.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Father
  • Think
  • Mentor

• I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Money
  • Proud
  • Enemy

• I don’t know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Business

• To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Work
  • Soul

• We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it's gonna happen.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Time
  • Together
  • Justice

• A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

  

  Augustus Hare
  • Evil

• When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

  

  Alexander Ludwig
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Parents

• And thus I came through storm to peace, not to the peace of an untroubled sea of outer life, which no strong soul can crave, but to an inner peace that outer troubles may not avail to ruffle-a peace which belongs to the eternal not to the transitory, to the depths not to the shallows of life.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Jokes