B. C. Forbes Quotes
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
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One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
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A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.
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I hate people who say New Balance shoes are only for white people. That's not real.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
