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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Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
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If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.
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Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
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I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.
