Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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I would like my kids to study well.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.
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I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.
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The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
