Steve Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr.) Quotes
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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In my beginning is my end.
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In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
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If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.
