Robert Wyatt Quotes
The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
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'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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In 1848, during his term in Congress, he advocated General Taylor's nomination for the presidency, in opposition to all others, and also took an active part for his election after his nomination...
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They call me nuts, they call me stupid, they call me ugly. They might be right about ugly. ...All that I've done is to say what's on other peoples' mind.
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He was naming the groups that were pro-war. No one minds his naming the British or the Administration. But to name 'Jew' is un-American - even if it is done without hate or even criticism. Why?
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I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press. They can change to whatever they want to do at any point. They own this thing. They can do whatever they want.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That's all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That's all I want to do. I don't want to hurt anybody.
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The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
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The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.
