Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
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It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
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As far as I know, the original 'X-Men' actors will remain in the franchise.
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To say that we should engage in some hypothetical about, 'Will I vote for Trump,' that's defeatist. I'm not going to be a defeatist.
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We need smarter, 21st-century budget guardrails that would gradually trim the size of Washington in order to spur private investment, create jobs, and boost the income of hard-working Americans on Main Street.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%–85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.
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I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.
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'Why are you quitting?''Sick of my job.''Because what you were doing was morally bad?' suggested the voice.'Because it wasn’t getting anybody anywhere. Because it was getting everybody nowhere.''Because it was evil?' insisted the voice.'Because it was pointless.'
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As you grow older, you change.
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There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
