Richard Branson Quotes
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Quotes to Explore
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the world.
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
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American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
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I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.
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I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
