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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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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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 think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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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 know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.
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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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No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.
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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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‘You are admitting, then, to frivolity of attitude to important global problems?’
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I think sports are very beneficial in the fight against obesity. I remember playing little league - I was the best person on the pitch by a long shot. It was only last weekend actually, I think I have some photos of it if you're interested.
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Wage war on death. Live for love.
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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.
