Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
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Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
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Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.
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If all else fails, birdie the last.
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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.
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No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.
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American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
