Phoebe Robinson Quotes
Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.
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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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I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, 'Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.'
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I'm sorry that I haven't won the PGA Championship. That would be something that would have pleased me very much. I suppose when I look back, I have a lot of reasons and excuses for not having won the PGA.
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Being innovative these days is sometimes having the lack of ego or guts to imitate something. Heck, in the newspaper industry, plagiarism is grounds for firing. In the NFL, you get a raise for doing that.
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Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.
