Roger Waters Quotes
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.
Quotes to Explore
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.
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There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
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[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
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I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.
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I like to collect aprons from different places I go. I first started when I was in Italy because I thought that would be really appropriate. I got a hand-stitched Italian apron from this woman in Sicily who put my name on it, and it said, 'Sicily, Italy.' So now I get one from everywhere I go.
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By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.
