Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.
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I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless.
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Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
