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.

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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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If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.
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Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.
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Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
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The truth of the matter is roles like James Bond are the ones that I look up to as probably the best roles ever to play. So that's probably my ultimate goal one day: to play James Bond.
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It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.
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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.