Robin Williams Quotes
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
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Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.
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I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.
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You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.
