Robin Williams Quotes
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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As a working-class boy, golf was never really on my radar, and when I was growing up, Irish football was my sporting passion.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.
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I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.
