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Robin Williams

(1952–2014) Social Scientist United States

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Robin Williams was a social scientist from the United States.

Quick Facts About Robin Williams

Born: November 13, 1952
Died: August 11, 2014
Nationality: United States
Profession: Social Scientist
Notable works: The non-designer's Web book: an easy guide to creating, designing, and posting your own Web site
Spouse: Valerie Velardi

About Robin Williams

He received an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, five Grammy Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005.

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance Disney Legends Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor

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Saturn Award for Best Actor Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Grammy Award for Best Album for Children star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award

Quotes by Robin Williams · Page 3

You appreciate little things, like walks on the beach with a defibrillator.

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Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas.

Christmas

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Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

Cinema

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A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

Heartbeat

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Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish.

Amish

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I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

Catholic

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Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

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There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.

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I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know…

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I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

Computer

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The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just…

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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 just…

Awe

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The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and…

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We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!

Cocaine

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Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn't matter, when you want some friendly patter from a…

Friend

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I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

Audience

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Here's the best birth control in the whole world, if you really, if you have no pills, if you have no diaphragm,…

Birth

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I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a…

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Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind…

Art

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2020. There'll be cold fusion. We'll actually be able to power our cars with our own feces. That's right. The emissions problem…

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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like…

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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,…

Acting

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You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re…

Being crazy

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When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a…

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The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Fear

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But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Alive

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What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.

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Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.

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You're still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude

Inspiration

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

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Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums

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Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

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

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You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian

Cemetery

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

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

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You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something

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

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Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs

Drug

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It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut

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