Robert Wyatt Quotes
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
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Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.
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Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.
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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
