Steve Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr.) Quotes
You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business - along with the short memory of our readers.Steve Forbes
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
M. F. Husain -
My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
Maggie Q -
I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
Padma Lakshmi -
I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
Zara Larsson -
The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
Rachel Kushner -
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
Nancy Willard
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
Sam Graves -
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
Laura Mennell -
It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
Val McDermid -
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
Dakota Fanning -
Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
Tamsin Egerton
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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
Otto Dix -
Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.
Irene Rosenfeld -
Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
Aphra Behn -
It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise.
Benjamin Disraeli -
I have the full confidence of the coach, and that's extremely important to me.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang -
I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.
Marie Rutkoski
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I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.
Alessia Cara -
I always like to start with a matte base then add shimmer.
Scarlett Johansson -
People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and there's bad little ones. The bad big ones have to make their money back, so they'll push them down your throat, but the little ones just disappear if they're bad.
Jon Favreau -
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
John Mortimer -
You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business - along with the short memory of our readers.
Steve Forbes