Robbie Robertson Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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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.
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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.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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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.
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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.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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.
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I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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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.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
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The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.
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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.
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I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this government and this country was founded on.
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When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that time, the Resistance were considered troublemakers - even traitors - in France.
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Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.
