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

• Son
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• I Don't
• College degree
• Zachary

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• 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

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Diversity
  • Europe
  • Itself

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

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Serious
  • Surprise

• 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

• 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

• I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • American
  • Team
  • Chicago

• The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

  

  James Patterson
  • School
  • Job
  • Kids

• I do the best I can when I'm accepting the role to say, 'This is about as much as I can do, and if that's not suitable for you, then you should hire somebody else.'

  

  Billy Crudup

• The muscles in my lower abdomen had torn off my pelvis.

  

  Bill Goldberg

• I am proud to say that I plastic-wrapped Bruno Ricci's toilet in his trailer.

  

  Kenneth Choi
  • Proud

• Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Attention

• In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

  

  Marianne Jean-Baptiste

• But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.

  

  Anita Hill
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Women

• If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • World
  • Alone
  • Hand

• Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • May
  • Free

• I will always need my son, no matter what age I am. My son has made me laugh, made me proud, made me cry, seen me cry, hugged me tight, seen me fail, cheered me up, kept me on my toes, and at times driven me crazy, But my son is a promise that I will have a friend forever!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Age
  • Friend

• I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

  

  Joe Biden
  • History
  • Political
  • Science

• 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