Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Golf is not easy.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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I am certain that Gadi Lesin's abilities and the experience he accumulated during his sixteen years in a variety of general management roles in Strauss Group in and outside of Israel will enable him, together with group management and all managers and employees of Strauss, to continue to take the group forward to further success.
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To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
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The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.
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We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!
Garry Kasparov -
Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.
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They're trying to destroy my family, so I take great umbrage with that. And defeat is not an option. They picked a fight with a warlock.
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Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
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California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
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I don't know if I'm a national education figure.
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If we do not solve our civilizational crisis - a disintegrating culture, dying populations, and invasions unresisted - the children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West. In our hearts we know what must be done. We must stop the invasion. But do our leaders have the vision and will to do it?
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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid... They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.
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It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.
