Robert Smith Quotes
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
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On my wedding day, I gifted my wife a platinum ring.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.
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When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.
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The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.
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Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
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If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.
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All they had to do was pick off a mammoth or a giant ground sloth every so often, when the opportunity arose, and keep this up for several centuries. This would have been enough to drive the populations of slow-reproducing species first into decline and then, eventually, all the way down to zero.
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In Europe, faced with the choice between human rights and gas, many politicians pick gas.
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I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.
