Robert Wyatt Quotes
Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
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As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
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We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.
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I don't live in regret land. I live in the now and in the future, and in the dreams that I have.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.
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Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.
