Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

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• The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

  

  Samuel Chase
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• I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • May
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• Facts are many, but the truth is one.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

  

  Carl Rogers
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• All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Book
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• Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

  

  Frances Wright
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• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  

  Caleb Cushing
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• As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Life
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• The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Husband
  • Facts
  • Astonishing

• With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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• Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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• The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Up
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• When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Success
  • Sex

• There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

  

  Andrei Codrescu
  • Up
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• Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Problem
  • Able
  • Investment

• The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Judge
  • Games
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• I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Believe
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• This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Way
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• The history of this world was divided into two phases: the present age, which was controlled by the forces of evil, and the age to come, in which God would rule supreme.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • History
  • Rule

• I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Facts
  • Able
  • Deals