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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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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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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The only thing I could be better at is to be around more. Other than that, I'm a great dad. I come to the soccer games and teach her stuff, go over her homework with her every night; we stay on the phone. I try to be as good as a dad as I can be.
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Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
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The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.
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It seems clear that the prophetic times I have been expecting for decades have finally arrived. And even worse, it appears that the judgment of America has begun...
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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.
