Carl Webb Quotes
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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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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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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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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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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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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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
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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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That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
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The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
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The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.
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The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.
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If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.
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A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
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Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.
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Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.
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Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.
