Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes

As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.

Tim Robbins

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• Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
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• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
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• I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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• Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
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• Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
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• What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
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• I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Funny
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• The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Government
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• I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Great
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• I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Feeling
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• Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

  

  B. J. Novak
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• The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

  

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• I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

  

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• I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

  

  Jim Webb
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  Janet Jackson
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• There’s nothing submitted and nothing ready to go, but I can definitely tell you that there’s a project on the way. I just can’t tell you when it’s coming. I can tell you for sure that I will be releasing another single in the next two months. It’s one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever made. It probably is my very favorite song that I’ve ever made, nothing against “My Love.”

  

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• We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

  

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  • May
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• Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where, in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Community
  • Winning
  • Battle

• Aim high and don't sell yourself short. Know that you're capable. Understand that a lot of people battle with a lot of things - depression, body image or whatever else - so know that it's not just you. You're not alone.

  

  Holly Holm
  • Alone
  • Body
  • Depression

• As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Battle
  • Scene
  • News