Tim Robbins
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"I think we are a pretty tough society and I think we can deal with 'inappropriateness' sexually or socially," Robbins said of the exposure of Jackson's mammary at the end of her act with Justin Timberlake (news) during last week's football Super Bowl.

 

"We have tough skins. The kids are not going to be scarred by seeing Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl. "If anything they are just going to be curious if that's what all nipples look like," he said of the singer's breast which was adorned with a sun-shaped nipple-cap.

 

Hollywood stars suggest Janet Jackson breast row is overblown Tue Feb 10, 1:19 AM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040210/en_afp/us_jackson_hollywood_040210071928




 


Craig Kilborn: “Use the words ‘compassionate’ and ‘conservative’ in the same sentence while being neither ironic nor scornful.” Actor/activist

Tim Robbins: “That’s a tough one. Neither ironic nor scornful?”

Kilborn: “Yeah.” Robbins: “Alright. F*** compassionate conservatives.”

 

CBS’s Late Late Show, October 30, 2003






Actor and director Tim Robbins, declaring himself an opponent of “fundamentalism of all kinds,” added, “What is our fundamentalism? It is cloaked with patriotism and the claim to spread democracy around the world.... Our fundamentalism is business. Our resistance to this fundamentalism must be resistance to profits against life, to the business of diverting attention from Enron and Halliburton.”

 

Tens of thousands in US rally against war on Iraq

By a reporting team

7 October

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/demo-o07_prn.shtml

 




Former Naderites urge votes for Kerry

A raft of former Naderites have signed a petition urging voters who might be tempted to vote for the independent presidential candidate to support Democrat John F. Kerry. "We urge support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states, even while we strongly disagree with Kerry's policies on Iraq and other issues," the petition said. "For people seeking progressive social change in the United States, removing George W. Bush from office should be the top priority in the 2004 presidential election." The more than 70 signatories include actors Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon; former talk show host Phil Donahue; academics Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Cornel West; and musicians Bonnie Raitt and Eddie Vedder. (Washington Post)

Kerry tops Bush among likely Minn. voters September 16, 2004
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/16/kerry_tops_bush_among_likely_minn_voters/




R: Maybe the answer is in the result. People shut up. People don’t speak their mind after something like that happens. We were talking about a disgrace. We were talking about the US government in effect running a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay for people who had tested positive for HIV.

 

Q: If they put you in charge of the war on drugs, what would you do?

 

R: Legalize marijuana.

 

Source: Playboy Magazine(February, 1995)




 

"In the 19 months since 9-11, we have seen our democracy compromised by fear and hatred," Robbins said yesterday in a speech to the National Press Club.  

 

"Basic inalienable rights, due process, the sanctity of the home have been quickly compromised in a climate of fear. A unified American public has grown bitterly divided, and a world population that had profound sympathy and support for us has grown contemptuous and distrustful, viewing us as we once viewed the Soviet Union, as a rogue state."

 

Tim Robbins: U.S. viewed as Soviet Union

Worldnetdailey.com

Wednesday April 16, 2003

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32087

 




At the 1993 ceremony, presenters Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon explained their red ribbons were in support of HIV-positive Haitians barred from entering the United States. Ms. Sarandon called on U.S. officials to "admit that HIV is not a crime and to get these people into the United States."