Steve Forbert (Samuel Stephen "Steve" Forbert) Quotes

Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.

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• I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

  

  O. Henry
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Dollar

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Small
  • Rights
  • Senate

• But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Mean
  • President
  • Wanted

• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Result
  • Sensitive
  • Within

• You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • You
  • Powerful
  • Aggressive

• I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • House
  • Random
  • Many

• The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Society
  • Lost
  • Horizon

• I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Lost
  • Audiences
  • Recovered

• The instant myth of Amy Fisher turned feminist dogma on on is head: as in the hit films Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, woman rules and destroys. The femme fatale is for real.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Real
  • Hand
  • Feminist

• You don't have to be blond or blue eyes or taller or smaller...just have to be who you need to be, and that's help people become who they are.

  

  Anastacia
  • People
  • Help
  • Eyes

• I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Power
  • Girl

• I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Deep

• When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • People
  • Power
  • Stop

• If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • True
  • Marketing

• We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • Long
  • Done
  • Political

• Empathy is one of our greatest tools of business that is most underused.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Business
  • Empathy

• As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

  

  Maurissa Tancharoen
  • Children
  • Why

• Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Friends
  • Characters
  • Minorities

• Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief that we can spread the opportunity for everyone to be fully human. Sustainability, like music, is an impulse to make sense of the world around us. It is core to our humanity. If you only like one composer, or think all the best music has already been written, you have reason for pessimism. If not, it is within us to have good reason for hope.

  

  Ed Mayo
  • Life
  • Music
  • Change

• Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.

  

  Steve Forbert
  • Music
  • Real
  • Healing