Robin Williams Quotes
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
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I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
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The general opinion appears to be that it is very funny to make yourself out as fast or as foolish as possible; though even worse than this is the painful orthodoxy of those individuals who claim Shakespeare for their favourite poet, Beethoven for their favourite composer, and Raphael for their favourite painter.
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Si la grandeur du dessein, la petitesse des moyens, l'immensité du résultat sont les trois mesures du génie de l'homme, qui osera comparer humainement un grand homme de l'histoire moderne à Mahomet?
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What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the international swag?
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We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops - it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.
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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
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Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some of the younger people in this society in shameful and disturbing disregard for other members of their generation who are not as fortunate as they are in having a job.
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A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.
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If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.
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Heaven is for every one, if you're old or if you're young Baby, you can't kiss the past goodbye When I saw her in the night cafe, just near by the Champs-Elysees She looked so sad, she breaks my heart She told me, she will take the car and drive to an unknown star She falls in love with someone else, not me And I know my tears will never dry, when I heard her say just, goodbye I never said she's guilty, guilty for my love.
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A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.
