Angela Ahrendts Quotes
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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I am the original 'Material Girl.'
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.
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I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.
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The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
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The purer our message, the more compelling it is to consumers.
