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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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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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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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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If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.
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'Ain't It Fun,' which is about entering the real world, is bouncy and shows off Paramore's lighter side, to the dismay of some of the band's fans, who are used to the punk-rock sound.
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My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.
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There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.
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Self-pity is not as sterile as we suppose. Once we feel its mere onset, we assume a thinker's attitude, and come to think of it, we come to think!
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It struck me that his dialect was actually the nondialect of someone who has learned a new language perfectly but without the lazy shortcuts of someone born to it.
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Music, for me, is as important as fashion. The first visuals I remember are Elvis Presley, David Bowie, New Romantics, and different punk bands.
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Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.
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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.
