B. C. Forbes Quotes
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.
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I'd probably get a much quicker and better result if I went to a really great guitar player for a certain style of guitar that I have a problem doing. But there is a challenge in figuring out if I can do that myself.
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Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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You only get one shot at a second chance.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
