Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. Robert Smith More Quotes by Robert Smith More Quotes From Robert Smith 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. Robert Smith peoplelooksthinking It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa. Robert Smith politicalcleverideas When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense. Robert Smith intenserealworld If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that. Robert Smith interviewswaitingwings If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately. Robert Smith tengroupssong I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us. Robert Smith peoplelooksthinking I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result. Robert Smith technologypeopleideas I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. Robert Smith entertainmentstuffsong There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable. Robert Smith ablethreemay I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me. Robert Smith wantnumberspeople Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things. Robert Smith There's a whole lot of concern with the hazards that come with this, we're not objecting to the construct but there's a real challenge here in terms of how to adequately label it. Robert Smith company-news I can't see how British Boxing Board of Control would work to be honest, are you really going to put in Floyd Mayweather against some little boy who has qualified through the Olympic system in Rio ? There is a gulf in class and ability. Robert Smith sports Is a professional boxer going to drop everything to go and fight in the Olympics ? Pros take three rounds to warm up. It's a different discipline, i wouldn't have thought anyone who's already been there, done it, been a world champion, wants to go back and jeopardize what they've already achieved. Robert Smith sports At the present time you have boxers going around the world trying to qualify for the Olympics. Are you going to say,' thanks very much but goodbye, we are going to have somebody else'. Robert Smith sports New data also show very clearly that a substantial fraction of adults are not willing to undergo colonoscopy and thus recommendations to get a colonoscopy in this group will go unheeded, the data also show that many of these adults will accept stool testing, and thus achieving high rates of colorectal cancer screening in the practice setting requires providing at least the option for colonoscopy or, ideally, a high sensitivity FIT. Robert Smith health-news Milwaukee is emblematic of a whole range of challenges facing the United States right now, and when we add the question of race to the mix, we rise to the top. It's very fair to say that the cultural and political wars of our day are playing out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in egregious patterns. This is one of the ground zeros. Robert Smith us-news There are no borders, no walls, there are no actual gates, but we know that there is gate keeping that goes on -- whether it's with the police or just the way commercial and retail operations treat you. You live the isolation, the racial prejudice, the hostility in all kinds of ways. Robert Smith us-news So much of our political discourse and dysfunction has been stoked through cultural and racial flashpoints, whether it's public education, police/community relations, employment or voting -- all current political battles fuel cultural wars that impact these tendencies. We are failing our nation's youth along socio-economic lines, but also failing to reinforce the promises of a democratic society. Robert Smith us-news You learn racial cues over the years, that's very different than my experience in the South, where I met plenty of people who might have been racially prejudiced, but I didn't feel unwelcome. It doesn't matter that I'm a professor. Robert Smith us-news
