James A. Forbes Quotes
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I think the Creator renews me.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
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Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.
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I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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Men’s pay paid women to love and nurture, to connect and feel. To be nurturer-connectors. In contrast, men received their pay by being some form of killer-protector. By becoming a human doing (a captain or a coal miner), not a human being (a person who feels happy or sad).
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Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
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In the United States of America, satire is protected speech, even if the object of the satire doesn’t get it.
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-the mother.
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Michelangelo, revealed me to myself, revealed to me the truth of forms. I went to Florence to find what I possessed in Paris and elsewhere, but it is he who taught me this.
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We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.
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To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
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The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.
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There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.
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Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.
