5 Quotes & Sayings By Raphael Bobwaksberg

Raphael Bob-Waksberg is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the hit Netflix comedy series “BoJack Horseman,” which is a contemporary retelling of the classic Hollywood “comedy of manners.” He was born in Boston and raised in New Jersey. He holds a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from UCLA. He has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Writers Guild Awards, an Annie Award, a Television Critics Association award, and a Peabody award. His other TV credits include the ABC comedy series “Black-ish” and FX anthology series “Fargo.” Bob-Waksberg has written for shows including “Arrested Development," "Modern Family," "The Mick," "PEN15," and "Shameless." He is a regular guest on podcasts including “My Brother My Brother And Me,” “This American Life,” and “WTF With Marc Maron.”

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Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no ends. There’s just the means. All there is is means. Raphael BobWaksberg
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For so many families, here and abroad, the war is just beginning. The emotional and political fallout will crawl across generations–the casualties can never be fully counted. Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no ends. There’s just the means. All there is is means. Raphael BobWaksberg
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I get the sense that some people think that influence dilutes — that the more you are someone else, the less you are yourself, as if you were born with some innate distinct youness that is gradually sanded away by the corroding forces of conformity. That if you could somehow tune everything else out and really dig deep within yourself, you’d find your voice there, pure and independent. That’s bullshit. Your voice isn’t there, already made. You need to make your own voice. You need to make your own voice. Raphael BobWaksberg
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Facebook, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through photo slideshows at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connections of their youth through the machinery of night, who clicking and poking and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural brightness of tiny screens floating across the tops of cities contemplating likes, who bared their brains to the network and saw who got pregnant and who got fat and who’s living the life best lived by posting Instagrams of themselves staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, who passed through newly cropped profile pics with radiant cool eyes obsessing over whose ex’s new lover is the best looking ex-lover’s lover, who breaking their backs falling out of ergonomic chairs while shouting into the icy streets, Everybody look how clever I am, Look how much fun I am having, Look at this amazing party I went to, Look at how well-liked I am, Look at my effortless carefully constructed casual desperate thrown together fun, Everybody look, This is fun, Look, Look, I swear to God I am having so much fun. Raphael BobWaksberg