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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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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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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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.
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I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
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In general, what we want to do is to elevate Volvo's brand positioning, and we feel the main lever to achieve that is to develop more higher-tier products.
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Across all religions in the United States, people 18-30 are more spiritual than before, but they don't like organized religion. What sets Birthright apart is that no one's hitting on you to be Jewish in any particular way, and you can define Jewish any way you want.
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The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream.
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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.
