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

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Robin Williams
Age: 63 †
Born: 1951
Born: July 21
Died: 2014
Died: August 11
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Audiobook Narrator
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Film Producer
Mime Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Chicago
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Robin McLaurin Williams
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My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.
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Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.
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Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums
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I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
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A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.
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[On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know.
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When in doubt, go for the dick joke.
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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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I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.
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After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn’t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!
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To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.
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People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.
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It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.
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I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'
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In America, they really do mythologize people when they die.
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Three wishes - no substitutes, exchanges or refunds
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Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.
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I've never had a hankering to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.
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My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.
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We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
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