Wallace Olins, CBE (Wally Olins) Quotes

Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture. Branding has moved so far beyond its commercial origins that its impact is virtually immeasurable in social and cultural terms.

Wallace Olins, CBE

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• The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Reality
  • Control
  • Emotions

• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

  

  Ice Cube
  • She
  • Kids
  • Woman

• We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Bad
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• I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Apple
  • iPhone
  • MacBook

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Simple
  • Trust
  • Try

• I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Job
  • Day
  • Player

• Music was as natural as breathing in our house.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Music
  • House

• I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger - every time I speak on radio or television.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Time
  • Criticism

• I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard

• I'm a runner. Not a race runner, but I just love to run, and I don't think I've ever tasted such amazing food like I've tasted in the whole entire New York.

  

  Adan Canto
  • Food
  • Amazing

• I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Trying

• The cloud removes the barriers to entry associated with traditional IT investments - meaning even the smallest companies can benefit from enterprise-class services.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois

• I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it's about work, and that's refreshing in this town.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Work
  • Commitment
  • Ego

• When we perform music at TV shows, we always try to do something that's not scripted because anything that's a surprise for the audience and the crew and the other performers, it works better on camera and for the people back home, too.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • People
  • Music
  • Home

• Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Future
  • Free
  • Growth

• I think the superstar thing is completely arbitrary. It's all about who had a movie that did well one weekend. Then, if you have a movie that doesn't do well the next weekend, then, all of the sudden, you've fallen from whatever. So it doesn't really mean anything for me.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Movie
  • Weekend

• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Right

• The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Toxic

• Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Business
  • Book

• That's something I want to do: cover all sorts of genres to find the one I love most.

  

  Ella Purnell

• Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture. Branding has moved so far beyond its commercial origins that its impact is virtually immeasurable in social and cultural terms.

  

  Wallace Olins, CBE
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Significant