Amy Webb Quotes

Exposure to more information tends to confuse rather than inform us.

Amy Webb

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• I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Anything
  • Much
  • Pessimistic

• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• It's healthy to have interests besides books.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Books
  • Healthy
  • Besides

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Person
  • Failures
  • Negatives

• I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Think
  • Me
  • Like

• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Woman

• When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Expectations

• Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Generation

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Basketball

• I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Movie

• When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Child
  • Identity
  • Name

• It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Year
  • Month
  • Looking Forward

• I think penguins are cute.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Cute

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she's the one who will basically do all the publicity for me back home... She'll constantly be talking to me saying, 'Dan, what's going on? We've heard this. Tell us about it! Dad wants to know!' And so I'll give them as much information as I can, and Mom and Dad are both my biggest fans.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Help
  • Information
  • Songs

• My only route was trust: trust in a *deeper* wisdom, the wisdom responsible for making my heart beat, my eyes shine, my hair grow; trust in the infinite intelligence responsible for making my cells replicate; trust in the part of me that is awake when I'm asleep at night.

  

  Brandon Bays
  • Wisdom
  • Trust
  • Intelligence

• Language is articulated, limited sound organized for the purpose of expression.

  

  Benedetto Croce
  • Purpose
  • Language
  • Expression

• Exposure to more information tends to confuse rather than inform us.

  

  Amy Webb
  • Information
  • Exposure
  • Confuse