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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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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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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At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.
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I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
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Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.
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If you're glued together right and honorable, you will succeed. Get in there and get rid of stupidities and avoid bad people. Try teaching that to your grandchildren. The best way is by example. Fix yourself.
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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.
