Robert Orben

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It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Age
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Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?
- Robert Orben
Collection: Checks
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I value people with a conscience. It's like a beeper from God.
- Robert Orben
Collection: People
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If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Water
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It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Eggs
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The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Birthday
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I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Running
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Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Children
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Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not have. With Reagan, people just say, 'There he goes again.' A sense of humor allows a president to back off a little from the tensions of the moment and take a calmer view of things.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Communication
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As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Hate
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You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Beach
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I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Food
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Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems.'
- Robert Orben
Collection: Giving
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THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Two
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Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.
- Robert Orben
Collection: People
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Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Speech
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Real
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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben
Collection: Startup