Mark E. Smith Quotes
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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I love my sleep.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.
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It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.
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To me, it felt that if I give up my name, I am also sending a message to my children, saying my name was not important enough as your father's; I am not as important as your father. That is a message we are passing down generation after generation without realising.
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...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
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Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
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Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.
