Ellen MacArthur Quotes
There is real relief on board, it hasn't been the most ideal way to start but we are really happy to be able to get on with the task of challenging the Jules Verne record.
Quotes to Explore
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.
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Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
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I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.
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eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.
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You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it.
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You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
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I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.
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Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
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Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.
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We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.
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I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.
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I've learned that no matter what shape you get your body into, if you don't get your head right, you're not going to feel good about yourself.
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There is real relief on board, it hasn't been the most ideal way to start but we are really happy to be able to get on with the task of challenging the Jules Verne record.
