Andrew Forrest Quotes
I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
Quotes to Explore
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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My father had very little formal education.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Of course, if you're gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I'm not gonna say no to a good role.
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I think pregnancy is a huge responsibility.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Remember, someone, somewhere in some corner of this somewhat big world, is out there crying if you're unhappy and is happy if you are! And you know who that someone is!
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I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
