Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.
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I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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The Great Western Disease is that we fixate on the future at the expense of enjoying the life we're living now.
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Even my family is shocked that I chose this profession.
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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
