"My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings."
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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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"You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer."
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"My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'"
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"One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street."
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"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?""
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"You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter."
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"The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!"
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"But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be."
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"When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer."
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"Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love."
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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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"I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people."
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"When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker."
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"Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet."
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"I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing."
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"The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?"
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"You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome."
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"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."
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"In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'"
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