Robert Webb Quotes

If I hadn't got into comedy, I wouldn't have met Abbey, my wife, and I wouldn't have my two girls, and the whole thing unravels. That's the thing about being basically - whisper it quietly - happy, is that you don't really want to change anything, because once you start changing stuff, then what you've got all disappears.

Robert Webb

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• Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • People
  • Real
  • Free

• I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Career
  • Me
  • Stop

• Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Passion
  • Universe
  • Force

• People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Always
  • Look

• The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Truth
  • English
  • Lies

• I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Work
  • American

• I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Remember
  • House

• The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Help
  • Opportunity
  • Alone

• Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Revolution
  • Leader
  • Destined

• I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Bad
  • Guys
  • Among

• I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • World
  • Like
  • Feel

• I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Hate
  • Nobody
  • Jealousy

• I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • World
  • Together

• There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Man
  • Earth

• We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Rules
  • Behaviour
  • Cheat

• You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • You
  • Humility

• If I hadn't got into comedy, I wouldn't have met Abbey, my wife, and I wouldn't have my two girls, and the whole thing unravels. That's the thing about being basically - whisper it quietly - happy, is that you don't really want to change anything, because once you start changing stuff, then what you've got all disappears.

  

  Robert Webb
  • Because
  • Anything
  • Changing