Robert Smith Quotes

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees

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• Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Appearance

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Real
  • Movie

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Boy
  • Down
  • Fish

• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Pictures
  • Too

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • True
  • Romantic
  • Pleasure

• Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Goal
  • Enough
  • Popular

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

  

  Raf Simons
  • She
  • Way
  • Fashion

• They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Time
  • Real
  • Day

• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Doing
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Life
  • School
  • Education

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.'

  

  Christine Woods
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Music
  • School
  • Home

• I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • World
  • Work
  • Pride

• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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