Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
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I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
