Robert Webb Quotes

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

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• We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Stop
  • Old
  • Propaganda

• For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Famous

• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Future
  • Confidence

• I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.

  

  Dana Davis
  • Kind
  • See
  • Emotion

• Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Team
  • Focus

• You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Future
  • Today
  • Responsibility

• If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Power
  • Black

• I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Promise
  • Kiss
  • Charming

• All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Need
  • Say
  • Hear

• In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Why

• I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • War
  • Religion

• Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Why
  • Mad
  • Books

• There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

  

  Kevin James
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Funny

• Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Violent Action

• No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • You
  • Force
  • Chemistry

• Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Destiny
  • Same
  • Happens

• The Sundering is a world spanning event that creates ripples all across the Realms. The books in the series are connected in that they take place against that backdrop, showing different aspects of it. The stories, however, are not sequels or intertwined, though there are some Easter Eggs across books.

  

  Paul S. Kemp
  • World
  • Different
  • Book

• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Watching
  • Washington

• I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

  

  Robert Webb
  • Watching
  • British