B. C. Forbes Quotes
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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'We would make our heroes shallow,' he answered, the words very slow and almost sad. 'We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.'
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The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that-for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty-is demonstrably untrue?
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
