C Robert Cargill Quotes

“The one truth you need to know about the end of a machine is that the closer they are to death, the more they act like people.”

C Robert Cargill

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• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Job
  • Fun

• Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Proud

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

  

  E. L. James
  • Day
  • Yourself
  • Everyday

• The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Discrimination
  • Agenda

• You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Played

• I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Find
  • Fat
  • My Own

• I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Fear
  • Snakes

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Responsibility
  • Colleagues

• My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Mom
  • Church
  • Said

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think

• We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • God
  • Love
  • Truth

• Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Moon
  • Pizza

• It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Fear

• I listened, I understood and I didn’t understand. Long ago she had threatened Marcello with the shoemaker’s knife simply because he had dared to grab my wrist and break the bracelet. From that point on, I was sure that if Marcello had just brushed against her she would have killed him. But toward Stefano, now, she showed no explicit aggression. Of course, the explanation was simple: we had seen our fathers beat our mothers from childhood. We had grown up thinking that a stranger must not even touch us, but that our father, our boyfriend, and our husband could hit us when they liked, out of love, to educate us, to reeducate us.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Childhood
  • Understand

• “The one truth you need to know about the end of a machine is that the closer they are to death, the more they act like people.”

  

  C Robert Cargill
  • People
  • Truth
  • Death