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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I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.
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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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A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
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It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.
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I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.
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Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.
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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.
