Steve Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr.) Quotes
The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.
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I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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Dancing is a beautiful thing.
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I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.
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It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'
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Your Real Self is the permanent atom of your identity, the rock of ages that remains unmoved by the restless tides of life.
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When that happens, you can feel it coming.
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The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.
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If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.
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The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.
