Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

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• 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cold

• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Laws

• I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • Never
  • Anything
  • Fabricated

• I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Process

• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Open

• Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Education
  • Alone

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?

  

  Owen Hart
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Stupid

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
  • Other

• I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • America
  • Political
  • Strong

• When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Words
  • Silence

• Learning's always a painful process.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Learning

• Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospère et s'aigrit dans l'adversité.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• 'This is my story, this is my song If you feel it, muthafucka, you can't go wrong to the screw-face niggaz, whatch you on? Get off that, get a goal and focus dawg'

  

  Kid Cudi
  • Song
  • Focus

• We still don't know what about 96 per cent of the universe is made of. It is dark matter and dark energy, but we have no idea what it is.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Energy
  • Universe
  • Dark

• You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore

• Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

  

  Dwayne Johnson

• As a former member of the IRA, I accept all the responsibilities that are due to me. But in terms of the individual circumstances, I don't comment on that.

  

  Martin McGuinness

• Nature … has born and reared all men alike, and created them genuine brothers, not in mere name, but in very reality, though this kinship has been put to confusion by the triumph of malignant covetousness, which has wrought estrangement instead of affinity and enmity instead of friendship.

  

  Philo
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Reality

• We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Men
  • Air
  • Differences

• Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life.

  

  Democritus
  • Life
  • Evil

• The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Men
  • Running
  • Wanted