Malcolm Forbes Quotes
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.
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It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
