Robin Williams Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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When a president speaks, it's to multiple audiences.
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If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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With 'The Muppet Show' we used to play with a lot of different styles. That's what it was: a variety thing.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
