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.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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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.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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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.
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Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
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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.
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I have the full confidence of the coach, and that's extremely important to me.
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I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
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History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
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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.
