Robbie Robertson Quotes

Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

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• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Game
  • Philosophy
  • Meaning

• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • World
  • Doors
  • Opening

• I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • American
  • Violence
  • Pie

• The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Party
  • Beauty
  • Democratic

• A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Game

• I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

  

  Sam Dew
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Learning

• I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • She
  • Girl
  • Go

• Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?

  

  Val McDermid
  • Government
  • Police
  • Interests

• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Work
  • Government
  • New

• My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Myself

• I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Worried
  • Burnout

• I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Never

• Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Up
  • World
  • Business

• The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Friend
  • Friendships

• We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat from the skies is no longer missiles but ozone-layer depletion and global warming. Leaders who assert they will not concede one square meter of national territory to an invader should think of the hundreds of square kilometers of topsoil eroded from their countries each year.

  

  Norman Myers
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Country

• One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

  

  Jean Rostand
  • God

• I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Band

• I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.

  

  Mary Beth Whitehead
  • School
  • High

• Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Country
  • Cowboys