Robin Williams Quotes
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As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.
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What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
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I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.
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I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
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With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
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No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
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Sports saved my life.
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My idea was you can't dress for the stage, you have to dress all the time like you're onstage. And so I would just always wear suits or some form of it. I wanted people to know I played music. That was kind of how you would find other people: you would just walk around looking a certain way and end up meeting someone who liked the way you look.
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I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.
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I'm not going to sit here and go to college for something that I don't care about.
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I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.
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Most people are more deeply influenced by one clear, vivid, personal example than by an abundance of statistical data.
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When I was younger, I was nervous and didn't have a huge amount of confidence as an actor. Comedy is something - you know when you're getting it right because you can hear. And you can hear if you're not getting it right! I like to create interesting, weird characters, and they're often best in comedies.
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Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.
