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.

Robert Wyatt

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• I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Know
  • Week
  • Days

• The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Attitude
  • Almost

• 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.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Peace

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Great
  • Game
  • Interesting

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• 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.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Help
  • Idea
  • Expression

• 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.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Strength

• The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Children
  • Race
  • Possesses

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Violence
  • More

• I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Think
  • Political

• If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • You
  • Hard
  • Oil

• 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.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Want
  • Government
  • Tax

• 'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Moments

• 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.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Career
  • Amazing
  • Direction

• People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Bad
  • Down

• Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• 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...

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Election
  • Opposition
  • Presidency

• 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.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Stupid

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• If you want to get technical about it, Rocky couldn't carry my jockstrap.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Rocky

• I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Home
  • Pretty

• I was on a plane, and the steward was coming down the aisle. 'Asian chicken salad...Asian chicken salad...Asian chicken salad...' And he gets to me and he's like, '...chicken salad!' What does he think I'm gonna do? 'Dis is not de salad of my people! In my homeland, dey use mandarin orange slices...and crispy wonton crunches!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • People

• 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.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Rich