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 colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• 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

• Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Tired
  • Uncertainty

• 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

• In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Earth
  • Sea
  • Ice

• There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Important
  • Business
  • Alone

• 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

• A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Celebrity

• From ancient drains and sewers of the language (maritime inns and brothels…), from scrawls in the catacombs…whoremasters’ chapbooks…the vocabulary of tavern brawls

  

  Anthony Burgess

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

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Words
  • Silence

• He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Work
  • Reflection

• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• I actually went out and tried to hire the very best Cabinet officers that I could, understanding they can make help make the hard calls for the budget position that we're in.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Help
  • Understanding

• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom

• My chest of books divide amongst my friends.

  

  John Keats
  • Friends

• 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