Robin Williams Quotes
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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I can paint in jail.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
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Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
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Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
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Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.
