Robin Williams Quotes

• I feel like I'm a big human snot.

  Robin Williams

  Bigs   Feels   Humans  

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• Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.

  Robin Williams

  Ideas   Different   Exhausted  

  Source: blankonblank.org

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

  Robin Williams

  Funny   Humor   Media  

  2764

• They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them

  Robin Williams

  Mother   Inspiration   Buttons  

  1032

• To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

  Robin Williams

  Fun   Democracy   Defense  

  1718

• But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational   Funny   Dream  

  876

• When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

  Robin Williams

  Buddhist   Riding   Existence  

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• You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational   Ideas   People  

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• What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?

  Robin Williams

  Advice   Credibility   Qualified  

  1264

• The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

  Robin Williams

  Funny   Baseball   Tired  

  604

• It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

  Robin Williams

  Wine   Alcohol   Kind  

  Source: www.rd.com

  4107

• 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.

  Robin Williams

  Country   Horse   Men  

  "Robin Williams Live on Broadway". Documentary, www.imdb.com. July 14, 2002.

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• If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

  Robin Williams

  Meaningful   Real   Dead Poets Society  

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

  1503

• I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid.

  Robin Williams

  Size   Happy Feet   Knows  

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  2858

• Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

  Robin Williams

  Mean Girls   Dead Poets Society   Bones  

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

  3715

• I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

  Robin Williams

  Zoos   Complaining   Gone  

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• Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

  Robin Williams

  Philosophy   Earth Life   Long  

  "Fictional character: Jack Powell". "Jack", www.imdb.com. 1996.

  1981

• Three wishes - no substitutes, exchanges or refunds

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration   Wish   Three  

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• Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

  Robin Williams

  Adventure   Would Be   Hook  

  "Fictional character: Peter Banning". "Hook", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• It's cheaper to keep her.

  Robin Williams

  Divorce   Cheaper  

  4373

• We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

  Robin Williams

  Gentleman   Honey   Way  

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• The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration   Wheat   Bread  

  4317

• We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.

  Robin Williams

  Hunters   Used   Hunter Gatherers  

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• I'm looking for Miss Right, or at least Miss Right Now

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration   Missing   Right Now  

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• We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. There’s evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didn’t take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took.

  Robin Williams

  Moon   Ecosystems   Rivers  

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• She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other

  Robin Williams

  Perfect   Not Perfect   Perfect For Each Other  

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• Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

  Robin Williams

  Golf   Men   White Man  

  5139

• I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

  Robin Williams

  Carpe Diem   Dead Poets Society   Different  

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Before the Web, there was just one guy running around saying 'I KNOW!'

  Robin Williams

  Running   Guy   Knows  

  2623

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

  Robin Williams

  Way   Comedy   Trauma  

  "Robin Williams on Returning to TV, Getting Sober, and Downsizing in His 60s". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 12, 2013.

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