Steve Forbert (Samuel Stephen "Steve" Forbert) Quotes
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	There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.   
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	I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?   
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	While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.   
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	An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.   
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	'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.   
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	By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.   
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	Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.   
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	I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.   
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	We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.   
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	What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.   
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	If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.   
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	I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.   
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	I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.   
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	Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.   
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	In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'   
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	Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.   
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	Religion and slavery are incompatible.   
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	My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.   
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	I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.   
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	Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.   
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	I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.   
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	Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.   
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	Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.   
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	I like getting requests from audience members.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					