Bill Drayton Quotes
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.
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I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
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When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.
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In 1960, only sixteen million Americans did not trace their ancestors to Europe. Today, the number is eighty million. No nation has ever undergone so rapid and radical a transformation.
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I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.
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I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.
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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
