Robert Smith Quotes

Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.

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• M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

  

  Laraine Day
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• I brought several national projects to Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
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• When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
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  • Baseball

• I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  

  Larry Bird
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• When all are wrong, everyone is right.

  

  Ed Koch
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• I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

  

  Ida Lupino
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• I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Words
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• Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?

  

  Jack Ma
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  • Year
  • United States

• One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
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  • Home

• I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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  • Present
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• In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!

  

  Zach Woodlee
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• Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

  

  Ice Cube
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• Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

  

  Hans Kung
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  • Spiritual

• People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Bad
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• One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Children
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• I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  

  Orson Welles
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  • Artist
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• People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?

  

  Lydia Lunch
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• I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

  

  Bipasha Basu
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• Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.

  

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