Robert Wyatt Quotes
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I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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Peace between Israel and Palestine is a top priority for the European Union, and it will remain a top priority in our political agenda.
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I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
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So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.
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I'm very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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I'm proud to have opened two schools in Africa and one in Jamaica through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners. I was given a lot. I was given two parents. That's already starting above a lot of kids. And then I was given the opportunity to play tennis and parents who supported that. I feel I can give back.
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I've never really seen myself as an actress. I told myself, 'I'm not going to get a job where I need to put on makeup, or one that I need to do my nails.' I hate the idea of putting on makeup, then removing it.”
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Nothing brings people together more, than mutual hatred.
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Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.
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Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.
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My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
