Charles R. Forbes (Charles Robert Forbes) Quotes
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On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
Anthony Daniels
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
Jay-Z
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Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.
Fats Domino
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Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
Betty Smith
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Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.
Scarlett Thomas
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Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
Zona Gale
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Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.
Lao Tzu
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Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.
George Washington
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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
Charles R. Forbes
