Robert Smith Quotes
I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
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Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take a breather and do other things for your career.
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Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.
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He's German so he's Herr Ball. Herr Ball. His movies are so bad, cats choke when they hear his name.
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The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.
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Modernization means Westernization.
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I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
