Steve Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr.) Quotes
One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
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It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
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I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
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The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
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You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
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The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.
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Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with.
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One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.
