“They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. (Spin magazine 1988)”

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are. (Spin magazine 1988)" by Robert Smith (musician)?
Robert Smith (musician) photo
Robert Smith (musician) 36
English singer, songwriter and musician 1959

Related quotes

John Keats photo

“Many have original minds who do not think it — they are led away by custom — Now it appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own citadel.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds (February 19, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)

Rudy Giuliani photo

“Iraq may get better; Iraq may get worse. We may be successful in Iraq; we may not be. I don’t know the answer to that. That’s in the hands of other people. But what we do know for sure is the terrorists are going to be at war with us a year, a year and a half from now.”

Rudy Giuliani (1944–2001) American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New York City

News conference (12 June 2007); as quoted in "Giuliani Sets Forth a Dozen Priorities for His Presidency" in The New York Times (13 June 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/us/politics/13giuliani.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Robert Smith (musician) photo
Studs Terkel photo

“The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster

http://books.google.com/books?id=FucDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT25&lpg=PT25&dq=The+key+issue+is+jobs.+You+can't+get+away+from+it:+jobs.+Having+a+buck+or+two+in+your+pocket+and+feeling+like+somebody&source=bl&ots=TYKi7WaW5v&sig=-4ggLp9hfdxXUvrZIF8U1OpGMSU&hl=en&ei=0CPkS4LSJ4P68Aakk7SpBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA Mother Jones Magazine - Sep 1995
The Guardian interview (2002)

Bob Dylan photo

“I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet

Robert Smith (musician) photo
Donald J. Trump photo

“It's going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We'll see what happens. Nobody really knows.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Regarding coronavirus

African American History Month reception, White House, , quoted in * 2020-02-29

Inside Trump’s frantic attempts to minimize the coronavirus crisis

Yasmeen Abutaleb, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey

Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-frantic-attempts-to-minimize-the-coronavirus-crisis/2020/02/29/7ebc882a-5b25-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html
2020s, 2020, February

“Time just gets away from us.”

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 7, p. 215 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'

Related topics