Robert Smith Quotes
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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May books spread the world over!
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
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Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
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Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.
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He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.
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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
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What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.
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I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
