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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• And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?

  

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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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• It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

  

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• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

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• Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.

  

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• Manners are really very important to me.

  

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• Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

  

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

  

  Robert Webb
  • Pretty
  • Comedy