Robin Williams Quotes

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

Robin Williams

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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.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Change
  • Attention

• Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Attention
  • Some

• 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'.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Care

• Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Bad
  • Stuff
  • Some

• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • World
  • Attention
  • Songs

• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Intense

• 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.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Experience

• Before 'The Vampire Diaries,' I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am's attention, and I went on tour with him.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Attention
  • Him
  • Vampire

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Attention

• I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Eye

• 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?'

  

  Raekwon
  • Real
  • Help
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Like

• I still wake up every day and take my kids to school. It's supposed to be this way.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Marriage

• You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Up
  • Know
  • Wake Up

• Even if the criticism is not always perfectly informed and in some cases I would deem unfair, just the noise, attention, fuss probably keeps powerful officials or agencies on their toes. And they should be on their toes when it comes to the use of deadly force.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Attention
  • Powerful
  • Criticism

• The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Attention
  • Mercy
  • Suffer

• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Science

• When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

  

  Sandra Tsing Loh
  • Standards
  • Block

• You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Attention
  • Stuff
  • Wake Up