Mary Dillon Quotes
I didn't want Ulta to be thought of as the retailer for discounts. I wanted Ulta to be known as a beauty retailer.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
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I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style – her toughness and rigor.
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Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough.
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When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'
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There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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I didn't want Ulta to be thought of as the retailer for discounts. I wanted Ulta to be known as a beauty retailer.
