Wallace Olins, CBE (Wally Olins) Quotes
We have to be alert to the way brands behave and misbehave. We have to reward the good ones with our loyalty and punish the bad ones by avoiding them.
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
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'Here are my roses. Like ’em?' 'They’re beautiful,' said Laura politely. 'On the whole,' said Mr. Baldock, 'I prefer them to human beings. They don’t last as long for one thing.'
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I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'
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Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
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Of course it's tough to reach the number one place and also winning grand slams.
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Before anyone else, women need to accept that neither does life stop, nor does it change for those few days in a month.
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There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.
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I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.
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It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets.
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I'm trying to be present in my daughters life as much as I can. I didn't have any kids or really any family. I have a family but I just dove into work 1,000%. I think as an artist when you're young like that, when you move into your 30's or 40's if you have time to focus on that you need that time. It's part of that.
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We have to be alert to the way brands behave and misbehave. We have to reward the good ones with our loyalty and punish the bad ones by avoiding them.
