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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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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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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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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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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We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.
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I've got plenty of advice from a number of other actors. Me? I don't give advice.
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When I was 17, my sister and I used to drive back from school in her car and sing the Spice Girls' chartbusters from the '90s at the top of our voices.
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NBA players, we're directly involved in the tech world whether we know it or not. Media content and wearables directly influence us every day.
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What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.
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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.
