Robert Webb Quotes

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

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• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

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• I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

  

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• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

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• Utah has benefited from setting smart tax policy. That said, public finding is dynamic enough that we cannot just set the tax policy and presume that it does not require continual review and adjustment.

  

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• A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

  

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• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  

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• As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

  

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• I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.

  

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• Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.

  

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• I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.

  

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• I don't think I am a very big star on TV.

  

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• Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

  

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• For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

  

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• I have one good girlfriend and then most of my friends are guys. Which I love, because they're just like so easygoing and I love to play like Xbox and just chill out when I'm not working, so boys are probably the way to go for me.

  

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• The present is a time of testing, we believe, to many of the Lord's people. Have we in the past been active merely because we hoped for our glorious change in A.D. 1914, or have we been active because of love and loyalty to the Lord and his message and the brethren!

  

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• My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

  

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• I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.

  

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• Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.

  

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• There are some folks at the teacher's union who aren't big fans of mine, in part, because I have been open and want to make sure everybody is sitting at the table as we talk about education.

  

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• To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

  

  Robert Webb
  • Pretty
  • Comedy