Robin Williams Quotes

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Robin Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014

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Most of the time, I wear plain clothes or very simple, basic ones, and then I'll have a statement earring or sunglasses.

Jessica Jung

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The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.

John Gurdon

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Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

Stan Wawrinka

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I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

Tom Felton

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I'm a theater guy and a filmmaker. So when my community was thrown up in the air by the gas industry, the way I could contribute was to do something in the film world. I never thought it would be a big deal at all.

Josh Fox

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Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

Chris Christie

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Being gay is nothing but another way to live your life.

Connor Paolo

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The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

Brian Cox

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I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

Seann William Scott

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As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Noam Chomsky

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If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Noam Chomsky

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