Robin Williams Quotes

I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

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• I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
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• Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
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• I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Record
  • Opinions
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• I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Teen
  • Normal
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• Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

  

  Chuck Berry
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  • Way
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• He's doing nothing different except not going to work. His life is still the same.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reason

• Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Quiet
  • Fools
  • Except

• All I know is we're going into the All-Star beak on a positive note. But we haven't achieved anything. Nobody has done anything except gotten to the All-Star break.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Done
  • Star
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• Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Dad
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• Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

  

  Bernard Goldberg
  • Pretty
  • Culture
  • Control

• It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Playing

• I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Time
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• I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Animals
  • Scared
  • Except

• I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • People
  • Reputation
  • Worldwide

• Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Boxing
  • Fighter
  • Except

• Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Camera
  • Familiar
  • Partnership

• I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

  

  Woody Guthrie
  • World
  • Song
  • Pride

• Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Real
  • Love

• At first, it was really weird after being a touring stand-up comedian that wears just jeans and a shirt. But now, it's almost like when you go from Clark Kent to Superman: "All right, I've got to go put on a suit and interview Justin Trudeau." It feels like it's part of the process. Oddly enough, I've been in enough places - they sometimes send you to places that are a bit scary - that I know how to run in a suit. Like, run fast.

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • Interview
  • Clark Kent
  • Stand-up comedian

• I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Except
  • Grudge
  • Tolerant