B. C. Forbes Quotes

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• I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Silent
  • Presence

• When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Style
  • Myself
  • Finish

• My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Health
  • Space
  • Water

• Africa is the future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Future
  • Africa

• After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Like
  • Beethoven
  • Wagner

• When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Running
  • Government

• Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Everything
  • Against

• Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Emotional
  • Body
  • Athlete

• While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Important
  • Long
  • Success

• Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Desire
  • Movement
  • Western

• Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Hurt

• Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Boy

• I guess music is very global.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Very
  • Global

• The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Think
  • Learn
  • Doing

• One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Paris
  • Arts
  • Decorative

• Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • World
  • Good
  • Change

• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• ...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Head
  • Breaking
  • Shovel

• Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Drinking
  • Make
  • Beer

• If you’re in business, you’re in business for one thing – to make money.

  

  Albert J. Dunlap
  • Money
  • Business
  • Make

• To make headway, improve your head.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Make
  • Head
  • Improve