Robert Smith Quotes

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'

Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees

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• When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

  

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

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• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

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• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

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• Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

  

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• We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

  

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• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

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• There's no regrets for me.

  

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• It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

  

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• I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

  

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• It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

  

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• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

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• I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

  

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• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

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• I've always been happy with my body.

  

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• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

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• Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.

  

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• The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.

  

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• Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

  

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• It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.

  

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• Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

  

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• The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Perspective