Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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There's no repentance in the grave.
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In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
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When you can't afford to hire the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best.
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I travel internationally a lot and I have a hard time sleeping and staying awake normally after crossing multiple time zones, especially going east. I've tried light therapy but not found it too helpful.
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As far as being a deliveryman is concerned, I see nothing wrong with being a delivery man. You know, black or white or Hispanic or Chinese or whatever, you know? It's a job.
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If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.
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If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
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I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.
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I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.
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Vulgarity shouldn't pass off as humour.
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The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.
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You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.
