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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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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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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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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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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I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
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Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
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Fuck Radio Ethiopia man, I'm Radio Brooklyn!
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The vast majority of what I've seen written about me is not true. My family and friends - the people who matter to me - they know the real story.
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I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.
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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.
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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.
