Angela Ahrendts Quotes

I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.

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• I have never believed in the impossible.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Never
  • Impossible
  • Believed

• I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Job
  • Try

• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Job
  • College
  • Drama

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Job
  • Nice

• You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Work
  • Job
  • Relationship

• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Business
  • Job
  • Son

• I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Job
  • Career
  • Crazy

• I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Job
  • Fun

• Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Job
  • Worry

• Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Job
  • Will
  • Worried

• Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Motivational

• The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Job
  • City

• My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Job
  • Opportunities
  • Push

• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Amazing
  • Fight

• In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

  

  John Gilmour
  • Time
  • Violence
  • Option

• There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • People
  • Up
  • Brain

• It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Want
  • Improvisation
  • Theme

• I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Job