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Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

Robert Wyatt

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
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