Diego Della Valle Quotes
Of course China is an important new market for Tod's, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the short term by thoughtless expansion, but instead to explain to the Chinese people what our brand is really about.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
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I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”
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We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.
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This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.
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The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.
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Of course China is an important new market for Tod's, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the short term by thoughtless expansion, but instead to explain to the Chinese people what our brand is really about.
