Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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(That is it!)
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
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I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.
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It is necessary and critical for states to have flexibility to determine how to identify and improve schools.
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Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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We have deep depth.
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We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us.
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I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.