Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson. I did, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.
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I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.
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I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
