Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Nothing ever goes away.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
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You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
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The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
