Robert Smith Quotes
The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I know what poverty is.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.
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Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word in edgewise for, like, an hour. But as a director, he is so completely open and just... present.
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The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
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I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.
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A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.
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The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
