Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
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I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
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Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
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The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.
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Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
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Latinos are very passionate, and they perform a lot, and look at me, I'm talking with my hands, and this is just my normal self, so it kind of allows me to be who I am and not dumb it down.
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We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.
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The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.
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I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.
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Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
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Of course we can establish constitutional checks and balances, but those won’t mean a thing unless citizens make sure the safeguards are taken seriously. The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.
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Let's remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
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Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.
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There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.
