James A. Forbes Quotes
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.
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I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.
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I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me when I was that young. So with 20 years being MC Hammer, I'm comfortable with cameras so when the camera goes on, I continue doing what I'm doing.
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I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
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I have an awful lot of energy.
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Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
