Robert Smith Quotes

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

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• The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • You
  • Actor

• The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Enjoy Life

• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Country
  • Book

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Living

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Look
  • Down

• My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Society
  • Doubt

• My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Life
  • Character
  • Science

• Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Always

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • Job
  • Camera

• If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Work
  • Attitude

• Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.

  

  Adam Grant
  • May
  • Creativity
  • Easy

• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Star

• Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Language

• America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

  

  Charles Best
  • Life
  • America
  • Learning

• The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Marriage
  • Rapport
  • Marrige

• You are better at small talk than I am. That is not always a compliment.

  

  John Scalzi
  • Small

• I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
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