Robert Smith Quotes
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
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Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
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Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.
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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
