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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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
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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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Better if he had said something natural like, 'Jesus, here we are.'
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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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If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.
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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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The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy, that it values intelligence and creativity, that everyone has a fair shot if they just work hard enough. This was true only if you were technical, and even that may not always be enough: in the age of the social network, who you know and who your friends were was becoming increasingly important.
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I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.
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People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
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I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.
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There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
