Barry Webster Quotes
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.
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I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.
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Just because people count you out and don't give you any love ... how about making them all fools?
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Success is overrated.
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People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.
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I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
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I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
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New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.
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Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.
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You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground, you know that?