Robin Williams Quotes
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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As heat rises, so does the number of people trying to cool down homes, schools, hospitals and businesses. This isn't just about comfort; it's a matter of public health.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.
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Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
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If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.
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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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I find personalized search convenient - I read stories on my Facebook feed, my Twitter feed, daily email services, and my iPhone's Flipboard app, and would love to be able to focus my searches on just those particular services.
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I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
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I got 'Elektra: Assassin,' and that's where I learned that she was a tortured soul. She's been through a lot and was possibly psychologically unstable.
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In America they really do mythologise people when they die.
