Robin Williams Quotes

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, 'My boy's got learnin'!'

Robin Williams

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• I Don't
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• Zachary

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
  • Street

• The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • War
  • Military

• I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Happy
  • Daughter
  • Yourself

• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Moving
  • Film
  • Touch

• I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Practice
  • Teacher

• I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Good
  • Different
  • Family

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Diversity
  • Europe
  • Itself

• I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Book
  • Doing
  • Year

• If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Serious
  • Surprise

• The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Important
  • Women
  • Mind

• I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Class

• And as I said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Night
  • Priority

• Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God

• Cuanto he perdido lo hallo a cada paso y me recuerda que lo he perdido.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Art

• The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Home
  • High
  • Eyes

• I always did the cooking at home, and we always tried for balance. We've been vigilant about how and what our kids eat. For example, my son would just as soon go for the grapes as he would the chips... and the chips are baked.

  

  Al Roker
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Son

• I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.

  

  Don McLean
  • Music
  • Men
  • She

• I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, 'My boy's got learnin'!'

  

  Robin Williams
  • Son
  • Graduated
  • I Don't