Mark E. Smith Quotes
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
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But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.
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When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.
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Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.
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[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.
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I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
