Robert Smith Quotes
I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Politeness is a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own.
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.
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I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.
