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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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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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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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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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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I have the full confidence of the coach, and that's extremely important to me.
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A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the last year, how much income they have, and so on. Those are not as well funded as they should be. We need to have those numbers.
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However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
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Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
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I'm a very hands-on producer.
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In high school, I didn't realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two girls in a 50-person class, that's when I realized that this was a unique decision I had made as a girl to go into engineering.
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For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.
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Children need to have a home. I don't mean a physical four walls and a room. There needs to be an emotional and spiritual and loving place in life. That's what a family is.
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'It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs.'
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Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.
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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.
