Robin Marantz Henig quote: "The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications."

In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth cana...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eat...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an u...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, th...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people wi...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how tha...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shad...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-a...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the abili...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always m...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strate...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on ...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lie...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes ...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the w...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one w...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 y...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handf...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied ...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid suc...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does n...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first ...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to rel...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man ...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.
PAULA MARANTZ COHEN

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably remov...
PAULA MARANTZ COHEN

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi...
ROBIN 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 left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stan...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even d...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second f...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dan...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of be...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to cre...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

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

Reality: What a concept!
ROBIN WILLIAMS

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
ROBIN WILLIAMS

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

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

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive -...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
ROBIN WILLIAMS

You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end o...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Do...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

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...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

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

Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

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

Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move ...
ROBIN LEACH

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.
ROBIN THICKE

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?
ROBIN THICKE

It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'...
ROBIN ROBERTS

There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is no...
ROBIN LEACH

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.
ROBIN MCKINLEY

Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny...
ROBIN MORGAN

One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that ...
ROBIN WOOD

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
ROBIN MORGAN

Rise and rise again until lambs become lions
ROBIN HOOD

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
ROBIN HOBB

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quit...
ROBIN HOBB

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell.
ROBIN MORGAN

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

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning,...
ROBIN MORGAN

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Carpe per diem - seize the check.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

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

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

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a ti...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

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.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

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

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
ROBIN MORGAN

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.
ROBIN GREEN

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, howev...
ROBIN MCKINLEY

He shook his head pityingly. “This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about...
ROBIN HOBB

Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast G...
ROBIN HAYES

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they ch...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did y...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors....
ROBIN WILLIAMS

You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along t...
ROBIN YOUNT

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so di...
ROBIN WASSERMAN

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.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It&#...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11.
ROBIN HAYES

When people realize they're being heard, and have a seat at the table, things seem to work out.
ROBIN HAYES

Liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.
ROBIN HAYES

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do t...
ROBIN HAYES

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communic...
ROBIN HAYES

One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men...
ROBIN HAYES

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.
ROBIN HAYES

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place f...
ROBIN HAYES

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision...
ROBIN HAYES

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened ...
ROBIN HAYES

As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as w...
ROBIN HAYES

What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding ...
ROBIN HAYES

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American p...
ROBIN HAYES

My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural are...
ROBIN HAYES

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead...
ROBIN HAYES

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's milita...
ROBIN HAYES

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scena...
ROBIN WASSERMAN

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more pre...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

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

Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we ...
ROBIN CHASE

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.
ROBIN THICKE

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may ...
ROBIN MORGAN

If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.
ROBIN WRIGHT

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.
ROBIN WRIGHT

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I'm tired of biting my tongue.
ROBIN WRIGHT

People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they ...
ROBIN WRIGHT

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary ...
ROBIN WRIGHT

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it ...
ROBIN WRIGHT

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And h...
ROBIN WRIGHT

Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are i...
ROBIN WRIGHT

Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.
ROBIN WRIGHT

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the s...
ROBIN WRIGHT

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.
ROBIN WRIGHT

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variati...
ROBIN WRIGHT

I learned about men from my son.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I eat at In-N-Out Burger every chance I get.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.
ROBIN WRIGHT

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I can't imagine going back to long hair. Cutting it was the greatest thing I ever did.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you're putting out negativity, then you're...
ROBIN WRIGHT

I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life.
ROBIN WRIGHT

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in l...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I&#...
ROBIN MCLEAVY

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

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
ROBIN MORGAN

Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before canc...
ROBIN ROBERTS

Never pick up a friend by seeing the volume of wealth, power, followers, money or degree rather pick...
LORD ROBIN

Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ign...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE

He is the god of epiphanies—sudden spiritual manifestations—and of transformation, and there is ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON

Some years later, Zeus and Hera were arguing about who got more pleasure from sex: men or women. To ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON

Sense is nonsense to a fool.
ROBIN ROBERTSON

What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the r...
ROBIN ROBERTSON

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of...
ROBIN HOBB

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives ...
ROBIN MORGAN

He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it ha...
ROBIN HOBB

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try ...
ROBIN QUIVERS

Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the w...
ROBIN HOBB

The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.

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