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.

Robert Wyatt

• America
• Sticks
• Empires
• Bombs
• Dropping

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• 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.

  

  Walter Smith
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Management

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
  • Machine

• 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.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Situation

• 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.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Dumb
  • Noble
  • Desk

• Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Star

• I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Business
  • Job
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Courage

• 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.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Great
  • Know

• I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Enjoy
  • I Can
  • Meat

• 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.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • End
  • Christ
  • Final

• Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • God
  • Live
  • Marriage

• No agency is better than its account executives.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Better
  • Account
  • Agency

• Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Duck

• I had no interest at all in opera or singing. I saw my fellow students struggling with their scores, laboring to memorize operatic roles, and I thought, 'That's not for me!'

  

  Albina Shagimuratova
  • Singing

• My general audition song is almost always 'Man That Got Away.'

  

  Ciara Renee
  • Song

• The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Future
  • Young
  • Influence

• Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement. The second-rate people who thrive in a tenured environment like nothing more than to surround themselves with more mediocrity and drive out those who might excel and reveal the shortcomings of the entrenched.

  

  Craig Venter
  • People
  • Environment

• When America does what's right, it's such a light on this planet.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • America
  • Light
  • Planet

• 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.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • America
  • Sticks
  • Empires