Carl Webb Quotes
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.
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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
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If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.
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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
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Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.
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Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.
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You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.
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There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.
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If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.
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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
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Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?
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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Winning is obviously the biggest thing. Because if you don't win, nothing really matters. You can have all the money in the world, and they can still call you a loser.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.
