Robin Williams Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
Tananarive Due -
Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
Uday Kotak -
I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.
D. B. Weiss -
I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
Zachary Gordon -
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
Vanessa Mae -
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Edna Ferber -
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.
Dale Murphy -
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
Vaclav Klaus -
When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
Kate Mara
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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
Ice T -
I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
Jesse Eisenberg -
I've always been a tomboy. I've always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.
Janet Jackson -
I don't think they packed it in. I just thought we played great defense. I thought we moved the ball incredibly well and got open shot after open shot.
Eddie Charles Jones -
I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.
Ariel Pink -
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
Eliot Spitzer
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When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.
Jimmy Carter -
Winning is irrelevant when you’re 11 or 12 years old. It really is it. At youth tournaments, I look at the technical ability of the players. Whether the team wins or loses - I don’t care.
Brad Friedel -
The U.S. has a system that does have a poor cost-benefit ratio. I mean, 40 million people lack insurance; another 30 million or so are underinsured. The people who are insured do have to worry whether they are able to pay the bills. People become bankrupt because they cannot pay the medical bills, and there are vast differences in the quality of care depending on how much you are prepared and able to pay. I think the system is not working well.
Karl Lauterbach -
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams