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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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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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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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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It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.
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It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.
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Millionaires don't use astrology...the billionaires do.
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State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.
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We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
