Robbie Robertson Quotes
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.
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If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?
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There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
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There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.
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Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?
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I am so happy and grateful now - that money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis.
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I used to follow celebrities, and I remember I watched Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt shooting for 'Sadak'. I was standing on the road at three in the night, but little did I know that I would be making a film with Sanjay at some point in my career.
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Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.
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Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.
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If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.
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I feel that I'm solid at description.
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Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.
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Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.
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I saw Double Leopards play at my school and realized there were other ways to approach noisy music that weren't necessarily aggressive. That became a very important concept for me as a musician. I don't think I would have been that interested in creating and performing my own music if it wasn't for this group.
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Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.
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I just love the sheer mess of New York.
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Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.
