Robin Williams Quotes
Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Tech never comes back the same.
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I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I love music.
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Haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla.
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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
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Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing.
