Malcolm Forbes Quotes
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
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You're as good as anybody.
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Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind.
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The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It can't be broken by any of them. It's cryptographically too strong. You would have to compromise the entire network to take over Bitcoin.
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
