B. C. Forbes Quotes
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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Figure out who you are.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
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I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I always liked spy stories.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
