Robin Williams Quotes
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When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.
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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
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The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
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I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
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Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
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The world is open for play, everything and everybody is mockable in a wonderful way.
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Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun.
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What’s wrong with death, sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can’t we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor? Death is not the enemy, gentlemen. If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.
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Make your life spectacular. I know I did.
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Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.
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I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.
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I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
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When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.
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I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.
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It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.
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My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.
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Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
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Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
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The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
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A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.
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People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
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The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.