Robert Smith Quotes
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
Quotes to Explore
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special things in life importance and not let the temporary things roll you off the road.
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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.
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I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.
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You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.
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I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
