Robin Williams Quotes
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It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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According to the theory of those weak minded persons, man is more perfect than his Creator. For what man says or does has a certain object, whilst the actions of God are different; He commands us to do what is of no use to us, and forbids us to do what is harmless. Far be this! On the contrary, the sole object of the Law is to benefit us.
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The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
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When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'
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We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.
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You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
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Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.
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You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
