Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
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I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
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Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.
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Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
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It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'
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Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
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I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.
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I never wanted 'Toy Story 3' to feel like another sequel just grafted on. We all know that if you put 3 after your title, it typically means garbage, and we knew that going in.
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You get nit-picked in the media. Stats are always up saying he doesn't drive it straight enough or hit enough greens or whatever it is. Then you have to perform, because if you don't perform, then you're off the Tour.
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I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
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I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about individuality, and in a way, it's romantic.
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I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.
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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
