China Forbes Quotes

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  

  Larry King
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Traffic

• No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Believe
  • High
  • Law

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Want
  • Hero

• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Injuries

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Original

• The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Man
  • Dog
  • Medical

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Desire

• Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Criticism

• The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Gold
  • Logic

• The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • American
  • Political
  • Air

• I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • People
  • Writing

• A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  

  David Brinkley

• The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Live
  • Hope

• I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Challenge

• Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

  

  China Forbes
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Soul