Phoebe Robinson Quotes

Being in a male-dominated industry, you can feel like a little excluded. That was making me feel like maybe I'm not funny. I was really seriously considering, like, quitting standup.

Phoebe Robinson

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FunnyMeFeelYouSeriouslyLittle

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

Joan Jett

PeopleMeThreeWhyExploreAsk

For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.

Jeffrey Zeldman

DaughterUncomfortablePhoneSuffer

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

John Cusack

MusicGreatDayYouthLateGoing

Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.

Andre Agassi

PeopleMeWorldYearYouBack

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.

Robert Herjavec

JobPeopleThoughtYearDeadNever

With 'Vikings,' I had the task of making these people interesting and, to a point, sympathetic.

Michael Hirst

PeopleInterestingTaskPointMaking

When Xi Jinping came to power, there were a series of hints that market-based capitalism would be allowed to move forward under his leadership. At the first real threat, they've fallen over themselves to impose government control.

Roger Altman

LeadershipPowerGovernmentControl

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Robert Walpole

CrownOthersSameHeadDifferent

'Moffou' is one of my favorite records.

Lizz Wright

FavoriteRecords

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

WarEndOwnSlideSomeExcept

We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living in the latter days and are closer to the Second Coming than when the Savior lived his mortal life in the meridian of time.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

LifeTimeKnowLivingDaysLived

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted.

Diana Rigg

ManMeDoorBagChairDown

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