Robin Williams Quotes
Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying “I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award". The other is “You want fries with that?"
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People take things so seriously.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.
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There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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I am really bad with cleaning my closet.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.
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When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.
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I like to make collages - paper collages.
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There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.
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It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.
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Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying “I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award". The other is “You want fries with that?"
