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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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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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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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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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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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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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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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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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 don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.
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The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.
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Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered.
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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.
