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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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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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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Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.
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Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.
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I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.
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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.
