B. C. Forbes Quotes
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
Sadhu Vaswani
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
Quincy Jones
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
Randy Harrison
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
Nancy Cartwright
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
Orville Wright
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
Zac Efron
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
Daniel D. Palmer
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
Karen Kain
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
Francine Pascal
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
Malik Bendjelloul
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren Buffett
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
Wang Jianlin
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Xenophanes
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
Adam Lambert
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
Patrick Wilson
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
Carlos Fuentes
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
Barack Obama
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
Omari Hardwick
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Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
Leon Trotsky
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I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
Angelina Jolie
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Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.
James Surowiecki
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I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.
Beverly Cleary
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Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.
Vissarion Belinsky
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. Forbes