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Robin Williams
Age: 63 †
Born: 1951
Born: July 21
Died: 2014
Died: August 11
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Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog.
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We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
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I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
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For a while you get mad, then you get over it.
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Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.
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The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
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I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?
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If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.
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I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada.
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I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.
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Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums
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My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat.
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I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product.
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It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.
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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 the human race.
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Make your life spectacular, I know I did.
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We're dealing with fundamentalists... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic. Remember that.
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I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.
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I feel like I'm a big human snot.
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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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