Malcolm Forbes Quotes
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
