Robert Smith Quotes
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing.
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So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.
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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
