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Robert Benchley |
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of Quotes by
Robert Benchley . Enjoy these inspirational and motivational quotes.
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. |
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. |
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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. |
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As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. |
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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. |
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. |
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. |
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. |
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I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. |
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It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. |
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. |
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There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. |
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people. |
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. |
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. |
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Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. |
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Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. |
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Author: John Stuart Mill
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
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Author: Martin Luther King Jr
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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. |
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Author: Rupert Murdoch
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
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Author: Pablo Picasso
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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