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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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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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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We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.
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Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it's only right that I return the favor and pay it forward.
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And then I say to myself that we should believe in that which we felt when we were strong and happy rather than in that which we feel when we are sick and sad. Do you not think, Judith, that one is more truly oneself in times of joy than in times of sorrow?
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.
