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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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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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
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But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
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The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.
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In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.
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If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind. The doors shut, and the lights go out, and the sharpest tongue is silent, and all of us, scolder and scolded, happy and unhappy, master and slave, judge and culprit, are children again, tired, and hushed, and helpless, and forgiven.
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I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.
