Balloons Quote by Robyn Hitchcock

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“Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.”

Robyn Hitchcock

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People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

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After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

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I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

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If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

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As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

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Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

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You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and crash? But sometimes it works, and something new is made, and the world is changed. Then, at some point, sooner or later, for…

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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to…

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Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon.

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It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as…

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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

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The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

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