"People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?"
-Robert Wyatt
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"Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.“
-Robert Wyatt
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"I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away."
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"Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience."
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"I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal."
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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
-Robert Wyatt
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"It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic."
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"Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society."
-Delphine de Girardin
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"Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do."
-Ingrid Newkirk
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"What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?"
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"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."
-William Lyon Mackenzie King
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"We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values."
-Steve Forbes
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"The main thing I believe in is freedom."
-Charles Evers
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