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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One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'
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My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.
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Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence... Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.
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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.
