Robert Smith Quotes
I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
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We detect light and particles that have traveled billions of light years on their way across the universe to us. During the billions of years of travel, very small effects due to quantum gravity can be amplified to the point that we can detect them.
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When I got the first e-mail suggesting we cast Zooey Deschanel in 'New Girl', I thought, 'That's exactly right.' In the pilot of 'Modern Family', when Cam is holding up the baby with the 'Lion King' theme, it was very clear we had something special.
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I jumped up on the benches, roared out, 'Damn you, you rascals!', hissed and was in the greatest rage. ... I hated the English; I wished from my soul that the Union was broke and that we might give them another battle of Bannockburn.
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True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
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I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
