B. C. Forbes Quotes
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I would like to direct.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.
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When I first heard it, I thought that's extremely challenging, the vocal - it was almost hysterical, and it was so up there, the register, but it was absolutely fascinating. And I know at the time a lot of my friends couldn't bear it, they thought it was just 'too much' - but that's exactly what drew me in.
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There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world. And I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again.
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
