Phoebe Robinson Quotes
Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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I always have to be writing.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.
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The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated.'
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I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
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I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
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Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.
