Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
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Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
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I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.
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I think I have good judgment.
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A corporation cannot make a campaign contribution to a candidate for federal office.
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I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.
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I didn't start playing drums until I was 12, for school band; they didn't have any saxophones left. My step-pops had a kit at the house, and I had never done anything that I understood so quick. It was so natural. It was the most fun and consistent thing in my life.
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I was 100 percent tomboy. I had the biggest Big Wheels.
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I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
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Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.
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An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.
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'Iceman' covers a bigger scope than 'Long Day's Journey.' But they're both fabulous pieces of work. 'Iceman' is like a symphony. It's got all the movements, all these different voices. 'Long Day's Journey' is more like a beautiful string quartet.
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People talk about, 'Well, why don't they bring 'Growing Pains' back?' No, it belongs in the time capsule exactly where it was. It would probably look corny and dated if they tried to redo that. But I think, for its time, it was meaningful.
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Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.
