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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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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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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Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
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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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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
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I ask Hoosiers to come together and vote for Barack Obama to be our next President.
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We've got a lot of young guys. A lot of good, young guys. But young guys can go out there and learn how to win quickly. I feel good about the guys behind me. I know that if I'm not in there, they'll do just as well as me.
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.
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The purer our message, the more compelling it is to consumers.
