Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

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• As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Home
  • House

• I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Why
  • Growing
  • Question

• I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Life
  • Success
  • Moments

• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • School
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Money
  • Man
  • Free

• On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Sex

• Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Freedom
  • Ruin
  • Brings

• Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Trying
  • War

• I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Try

• I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Men
  • Age
  • Respect

• Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Back

• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • War
  • Faith

• Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Care

• I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Long
  • Character
  • Day

• My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Father
  • Military

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• I have a beautiful wife, I have two great kids, my career's still going, I've got my health. What can I ask for?

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Kids
  • Health
  • Wife

• When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Same
  • Walk

• Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.

  

  Benny Green
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Believe
  • Running
  • Simple

• Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Running
  • Vision
  • Consistency

• Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Running
  • Government
  • Gangsters