Robert Smith Quotes
Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.
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And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
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I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
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When I was a teenager, I used to watch 'Beverly Hills 90210' - which is totally aging myself - and I'd try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.
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Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
