Robin Williams Quotes
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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I'm a bed monster.
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
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The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
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We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
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In this meditation we do not concentrate or control the mind. We let the mind follow its natural instinct toward greater happiness, and it goes within and it gains bliss consciousness in the being.
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It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
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Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.
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We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!
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The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, … I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.
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When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.
