Katrina Lake Quotes
When I founded Stitch Fix, I wanted to create a company that I would want to work at for the rest of my life.
Quotes to Explore
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.
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For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
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We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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When I founded Stitch Fix, I wanted to create a company that I would want to work at for the rest of my life.
