Robin Williams quote: "I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience."

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke,...
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In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi...
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There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even d...
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I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.
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The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
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I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second f...
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Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
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Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you,...
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dan...
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I love kids, but they are a tough audience.
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I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z...
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Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
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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...
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When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though...
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A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
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I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of...
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I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of be...
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I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
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One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter ...
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I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a ...
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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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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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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to cre...
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Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
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Reality: What a concept!
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If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
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If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
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What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
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The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field...
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In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski...
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We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
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Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, ...
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My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive -...
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I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
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Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.
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Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
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When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
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You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
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I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.
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Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got ...
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I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end o...
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I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of ...
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They...
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We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
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Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Do...
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For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. ...
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In America they really do mythologise people when they die.
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The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
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When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone i...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform i...
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Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.
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Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
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Carpe per diem - seize the check.
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Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
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Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
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Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning “many”; and "tics" meaning “bloodsucking creatures�...
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God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the ...
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See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a ti...
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Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.
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Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
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Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
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If ballet were easy, they'd call it football
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
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Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they ch...
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Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did y...
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The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording ...
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From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors....
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It&#...
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Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
ROBIN WILLIAMS

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more pre...
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
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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 l...
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with...
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It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking ...
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The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.&...
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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green ...
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The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell...
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I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, ...
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Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.
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Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.
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See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a t...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Comedy is acting out optimism.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!
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There have been two different drafts (of the script). The hard part about following it up is at the ...
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The moments of comedy are there. But the whole idea of a vacation is the stripping away of stuff and...
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They make these outrageous comedies and just use these kids as props. They're not beings who are tra...
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Without (the reality), it's just slamming into things. If you start with that physical comedy, then ...
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I feel like I'm a big human snot.
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a weird combination of isolation and connection and disconnection; discomfort and awkwardness.
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When exactly did Ted Kennedy become Jabba the Hutt? He's not a macy's day float! Bring him down it's...
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I still think Nancy does most of his talking; you'll notice that she never drinks water when Ronnie ...
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He loved politics. He was always an activist on that level, always a fighter.
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I am job...
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The only weapon we have is comedy.
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Gay robbers came in last night and rearranged the living room
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We've been through quite a few. We're very aware and cautious with hurricanes,
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Bicentennial Man,
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I'm going to go to Kennebunkport and see if they respond any quicker!
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We show-ed a lot of intensity on defense early. But we missed one of our point guards who is the spa...
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We are so excited about adding additional incentives to the program. It gives them a fun reason to e...
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But only in their dreams can men be truly free It was always thus and always thus will be.
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Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, ...
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The brightest light has gone out.
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God gave us a penis and a brain, but not enough blood to use both at the same time
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Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I believe that once we are all gone, Keith Richards will still be here...with 5 cockroaches saying '...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I'm looking for Miss Right, or at least, Miss Right Now
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I like my wine like my women -- ready to pass out.
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We're all worms, but I do believe I'm a glowworm.
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They tell me now that SpongeBob is gay. SquarePants is not gay. Tight pants maybe. SpongeBob Hot Pan...
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When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in th...
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Look at us -- we're a San Francisco wedding cake.
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The only people flying to Europe will be terrorists, so it will be, "Will you be sitting in armed or...
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Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
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What is a stealth bomber? It's a bomber that doesn't show up on radar, and you can't see it. Then we...
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In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you comm...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

When the media ask him [George W. Bush] a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
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I love running cross country....On a track, I feel like a hamster.
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There are so many beautiful parts of the world . . . Thailand, Italy, the south of France. There are...
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Carpe per diem-seize the check.
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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with some...
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Freud: If its not one thing, its your mother.
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Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and "tics" meaning bloodsucking creatures.
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We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.
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Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.
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We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictator...
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Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.
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If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
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It felt wonderful doing it. But that's rather like urinating in brown velvet pants. It can feel wond...
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We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is...
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I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. The idea of being a character who i...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it lik...
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Marijuana enhances many things, colors, flavors, sensations, but you are certainly not f**king empow...
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My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.
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[· Also on DVD: A two-disc] Fern Gully . . . The Last Rainforest, ... Pet Alien.
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After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was; I just have fewer dents in my ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Steve was that little boy in 'Deliverance' who played the banjo,
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We're dealing with fundamentalists... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a...
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. . . when you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.
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I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're...
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And then there was [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld coming out and saying, "I don't know when....
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And I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so ...
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It has this scope that's outrageous, but yet at the core, these very intimate scenes, so that alone ...
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I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so . . . look at the platypus.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I had a lovely military flight, thank you. I love spiraling in -- nothing like that to make your col...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The brightest light has gone out. We will forever celebrate her loving spirit.
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[I was] hoping for the fallout of girls that would go for him. I was kind of his fool. We went throu...
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I think it takes Barry.
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After a while, you just kind of chill. It just becomes a whole different lifestyle and no one bother...
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We are so thrilled that Watson has partnered with us as we continue to improve the health care in ou...
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It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you- when he comes down fro...
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When in doubt, go for the dick joke.
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His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.
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My God. We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
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If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.
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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, "Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses." She...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

If you masturbated with your left hand, would it be like being touched by a retarded person?
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When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in.
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There are easier things in life than trying to find a nice guy...like nailing jelly to a tree for ex...
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The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs
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I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it�...
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We constantly stress defense and that was the difference.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures".
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Why do they call it rush hour if no one moves?
ROBIN WILLIAMS

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

You can fool some of the people some of the time and the rest you can jerk off
ROBIN MCLAURIN WILLIAMS

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
ROBIN MCLAURIN WILLIAMS

The problem is, God gave man a brain and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time.
ROBIN MCLAURIN WILLIAMS

See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.
ROBIN MCLAURIN WILLIAMS

Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - ...
ROBIN HOBB

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
ROBIN DAY

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call m...
ROBIN YOUNT

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not si...
ROBIN THICKE

I think ever since I started to read, there have been favorite novels for different stages of my lif...
ROBIN HOBB

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who be...
ROBIN LEACH

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

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I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

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