Robin Williams Quotes
Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I don't like controversy.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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Fools follow rules when the set commands you.
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I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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Wigs are my best friends. They let you be whoever you want to be.
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The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.
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Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.
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Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
