Robert Smith Quotes
You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar.
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Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.
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The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.
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As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.
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You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
