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 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 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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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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There are a lot of big action movies that we've worked on where the attitude has been, 'Let's just get through this scene.' Then you get those jumpy, what-were-they-thinking action sequences.
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When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
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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.
