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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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 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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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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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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I drank too much, only champagne.
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As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.
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I never watch my own films.
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I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.
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So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had.
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I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.
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I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.
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Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.
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My mum and dad are both sportspeople and know what's it all about. They know it's hard work, but they also know what it takes to become a professional athlete. I don't think - without their help, I wouldn't have got this far.
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Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.
