B. C. Forbes Quotes
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.
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Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as a Black actress, there's not a whole lot out there for us, unless we're creating it.
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We knew the European players that went to the NBA and had great careers, and we knew the ones that went and had terrible careers or finished early. We were prepared for a lot of criticism.
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I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
