B. C. Forbes Quotes
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.
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When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
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When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
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Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.
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How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.
