Robin Williams Quotes
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.
Quotes to Explore
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
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I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
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So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'
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Some actors are like flowers basking in the sun - they love the attention, and the fans get what they want. With me it's different. I know the fans aren't getting what they want. And I'm certainly not getting what I want.
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I still wake up every day and take my kids to school. It's supposed to be this way.
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It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.
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I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.
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I don't like to bring attention to myself. I don't like to make a scene.
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I learned a lot in my life by paying attention and listening to how people around me worked.
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I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
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Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.
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Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.
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In the beginning, when you're acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that.
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Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus day.
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There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.
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You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.
