Roger Waters Quotes

Part of the reason I'm doing Us + Them tour is to play my part in trying to spread the message that cooperation is a better way to resolve conflicts than confrontation. That bridges are better than walls, that nationalism and exceptionalism is destroying our world and destroying our lives.

Roger Waters Pink Floyd

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• Cooperation
• Destroying

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• I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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  • Kids
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• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
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• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
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• I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.

  

  Young Thug
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• I would like to have my gun for protection.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • World
  • Unique

• I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Opportunity
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• I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Society
  • Know
  • Questions

• I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Family
  • Said

• I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • Power
  • Think

• It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind of fistfight choreography that the star would devote four months to shoot.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • American
  • True
  • Star

• I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

  

  Ken Thompson

• Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Up
  • Home
  • Team

• Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Energy

• Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Life
  • Great
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• People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Chance
  • Depression

• There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Simple
  • Might
  • Events

• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Need
  • Potential
  • Cooperation

• If there's a message to pass to people, I'd say that it's normal to be different from others, it's good to differ from one another, and we'd better look at ourselves first before we start criticising someone who looks, acts, speaks different or has a different skin colour. I'd like to continue, even at a minimal level, what John Lennon had started. If I could do as much as a bit of what he did, if I could contribute to the elimination of hatred among us, that would be a great deal.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • People
  • Message

• People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

  

  Morgan Brittany
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Message

• The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.

  

  Njabulo S Ndebele
  • Society
  • Language
  • Problems

• Part of the reason I'm doing Us + Them tour is to play my part in trying to spread the message that cooperation is a better way to resolve conflicts than confrontation. That bridges are better than walls, that nationalism and exceptionalism is destroying our world and destroying our lives.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Message
  • Cooperation
  • Destroying