Robbie Robertson Quotes

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.

Robbie Robertson

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• A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Sleep

• There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Marriage

• I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.

  

  Natasha Little
  • People
  • Think
  • Feelings

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Hungry
  • Eater

• It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Always

• You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • History
  • Day

• Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Books

• That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

  

  Tan Le
  • Up
  • Day
  • Wake Up

• I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Powerful

• I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Discover
  • Surprised
  • Boston

• I don't take vacations.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Take
  • Vacations

• Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Years
  • Discover
  • Programming

• My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Life
  • Happy

• Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Better
  • Mistakes
  • Anything

• Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Black
  • Funny
  • Never

• We have in mind it being a very prominent building where people can come to learn about Washington state, the territorial history and the culture,

  

  Sam Reed
  • People
  • Mind
  • History

• Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • She
  • Night
  • Perfect

• So many years later, you watch yourself, and you're not critical of yourself anymore 'cause that's behind you.

  

  George Chakiris
  • Yourself
  • Critical
  • Behind You

• In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Musician
  • Anything