Robert Smith Quotes
I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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I'm always going to use music, use culture as a tool to engage people to have this dialog, to enable others. That's very important.
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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Language is a form of organized stutter.
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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
