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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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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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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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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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 think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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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 have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.
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A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.
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I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.
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We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
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I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And when a good business partner supports them from the side, it creates great synergy. When someone's trying to do both, I think the music gets bad and the business gets bad, too.
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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.
