Karren Brady Quotes
As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.
Quotes to Explore
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
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In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
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Generally I'm wide open to people; I love helping them in any way I possibly can. But for me to invest, a business has to have a lot of creative scale; it has to be unique.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
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There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.
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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
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A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
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We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.
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As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.
