Robert Palmer Quotes

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.

Robert Palmer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 19, 1949 - September 26, 2003

Topics

MusicPeopleMeControlLovedYou

I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

Jim Webb

I AmDangerousCleanAirActBasic

I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.

Jill Scott

LifeWorkLoveYouKnowWhy

Must I tell the story of my life again?

John Garfield

LifeStoryMy LifeTellMustAgain

The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.

Andrew Nikiforuk

FutureEnergyCompromiseGeneration

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

Andy Dunn

TimeStartMoreCompanyOverEvolve

I think one of the most important things for a young player's development is that they understand that they will play when they deserve the right to play.

Stan Van Gundy

ThinkPlayYoungUnderstandDeserve

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

Robin Leach

WorkJobPeopleStoryTalkingPaper

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

Ron Bloom

DogFriendPowerGunPoliticalYou

In America the biggest is the best.

Roy Lichtenstein

BestAmericaBiggest

I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

Roxie Roker

MeTryingYouWhiteMadAchieve

We are 'nuclear waste' from the fuel that makes stars shine; indeed, each of us contains atoms whose provenance can be traced back to thousands of different stars spread through our Milky Way.

Martin Rees

StarsShineBackWayAtomsSpread

Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.

Michelle Alexander

EducationHistoryPoliceJobWorld

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