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.
Eckhart Tolle
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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.
Camryn Manheim
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
J. J. Abrams
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I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian
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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.
Jackie Chan
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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.
Randi Weingarten
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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.
Daniel Everett
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
Carla Gugino
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
D. B. Sweeney
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
Jack Davenport
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
Kate Smith
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
Wang Jianlin
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
Tavi Gevinson
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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.
Abraham Verghese
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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.
Sam Altman
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My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
Rachel McAdams
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?
Hugh MacDiarmid
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Meg Wheatley
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Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.
Robin Williams