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Robert Ley Inspirational Quotes (147)

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I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously.
Robert Sheckley
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Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.
Robert Benchley
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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
Robert Benchley
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What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.
Robert Creeley
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There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.
Robert Benchley
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Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.
Robert Benchley
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Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one
Robert Benchley
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The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the heck out of here!' today she says: 'Let's get the heck out of here! I've got claustrophobia.
Robert Benchley
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Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.
Robert Benchley
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A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.
Robert Benchley
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One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.
Robert Benchley
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Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.
Robert Creeley
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You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains.
Robert Benchley
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Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.
Robert Creeley
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If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.
Robert Morley
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To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
Robert Morley
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
Robert Benchley
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I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.
Robert Benchley
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What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday paper which has been left in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.
Robert Benchley
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If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.
Robert Benchley
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But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.
Robert Sheckley
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A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.
Robert Morley
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It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.
Robert Benchley
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If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.
Robert Morley
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