B. C. Forbes Quotes

I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

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• I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Children
  • Night
  • Affairs

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Moment
  • Producer
  • Some

• I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Football

• I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Movie
  • Roles
  • Fit

• I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Nations
  • Mother`s
  • Wars

• The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Play
  • Poverty
  • Lifting

• This is probably going to surprise people, but if you were to do a scan around the globe on public policy concerning our industry, you would probably have to conclude that the United States has the policy that has been, I believe, the most pro competition.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Competition

• I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Job

• Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Eyes
  • Focus
  • Tax

• Here's the key to Jamaica, the secret to Jamaican dancehall parties, no matter where you are in the world. If you do not see Japanese people, you're at the wrong party. They source authenticity like no other culture I've ever seen.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • People
  • World
  • Culture

• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Great
  • War
  • Peace

• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Pleasure

• I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Family
  • Attention

• Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Good
  • Team
  • Manager

• I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Done
  • Think
  • Science

• When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • You
  • Look
  • Need

• I have sung, but I haven't sung in any way that I would ever call myself 'a singer.'

  

  Jennifer Grey

• During his sixty-odd years, he had found there were as many louts in the patrician classes as there were ignoramuses farther down the social spectrum.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Found
  • Scripts
  • Good Stories

• I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

  

  B. C. Forbes
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