I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a belief in destiny and the search for understanding one's existence.
In this quote, Robin Williams expresses his introspective nature, suggesting that his attempts to comprehend life and his place within it lead him to believe in the concept of destiny. He implies that there is a purpose behind his identity and experiences, indicating a deep contemplation of the forces that shape who we are.
In practice
In a motivational speech about purpose and destiny.
It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.' Because you have that initial warm feeling going, 'Oh, I remember this'. And your body does, too. And your body goes, 'Yeah, so do I'. Then the demon voice comes, 'Yeah, so do I. You know what would be great? You know we bought a little bottle before? A full bottle would be wonderful'.
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
I've never been asked to appear on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!,' so I guess I mustn't be on the professional skids just yet.
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?'
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.
It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
I decided to be what crime made of me.
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