Robert Wyatt Quotes
I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
Quotes to Explore
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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Health food makes me sick.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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I'm really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I've been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.
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Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
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Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.
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Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it, like, as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers, and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we, like, just send each other packages.
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When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
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Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.
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I wouldn't mind having a nice little restaurant.
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People Are Much More Beautiful Than They Think: Long Live Their True Face.
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If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.
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I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
