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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Roy Jones is different. I like the style and the movement.
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Once the church is ready to associate with instituted power it is obliged to associate with all and sundry forms of the state. The scandal is that each time the church seeks to justify both its adaptation and the existing power. It continues to legitimize the state and to be an instrument of its propaganda.
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It's a mixed feeling when everything you've ever wanted in making films is coming true, and yet you feel scared because it's happening all at once. Suddenly you're in rooms with people you've looked up to for years, the Judi Denches. You wonder if you're good, if you have what it takes.
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A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.
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I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
