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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His examiner...said severely: 'Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature.' 'The aim of literature,' Baskerville replied grandly, 'is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.'
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Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.
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Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: - The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing & Way You Behave when You Have Everything
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When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.
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Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.
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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.
