Andrea Jung Quotes
No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
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Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
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I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
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No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.
