Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
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Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
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In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
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And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.
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Quarterbacks are always ready.
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I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.
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The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.
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One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.
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Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.
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It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.
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David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times
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God did not grant one and the same will, one and the same desire, one and the same motivation to each and every woman… He takes pleasure in creation’s variety
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We should use all our money for the Lord. This is, we should use all our money in a way that God would approve. In that sense, all of our money is to be given to the Lord. Stewardship is to be total, not partial.
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I do not regret getting married nor do I regret getting divorced.
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I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
