James Dyson Quotes
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
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I don't like the term mid-life crisis.
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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
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If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
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Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
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I'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads.
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Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.
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I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.
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The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.
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Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
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During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.
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I'm proud of my body, I'm proud of my sport, I'm proud of being a female athlete.
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I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.
