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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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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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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It's ridiculous to talk about a revolution without a few words on guns. If you haven't been in the army or done some hunting, you probably have a built in fear against guns that can only be overcome by familiarizing yourself with them.
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I like to see a video through a computer or through a phone to make sure it looks good at its worst. I hate when you perfect something for the ideal way of consuming things, and then when you see it on YouTube, it looks like crap.
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Mr. Trump, I really can't comment, because he was my boss on 'Celebrity Apprentice,' and I just don't think we should let him be president until he produces evidence that the thing on his head is real. Because he wanted to see Obama's birth certificate, we should ask for a certificate of real hair.
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To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
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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.
