Robert Webb Quotes
We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
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The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.
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I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.
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The movie 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' was a sacred text in my household.
Colson Whitehead -
I'll never be rude to another news person. It's a tough job, a thankless job. You really have to get out there and grovel to get your story.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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I'm a Red American; I believe in tax cuts. But I'm a Red American with a lot of Blue stripes.
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We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
