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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Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.
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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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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'
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I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.
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When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.
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Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.