Angela Ahrendts Quotes

The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.

Angela Ahrendts

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• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Best
  • Politics
  • Cards

• I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Life
  • Think
  • Forever

• The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Story
  • Difficult

• I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Art
  • Know
  • Idea

• New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Art
  • New
  • New York

• I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Good
  • Done
  • Mother

• There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Justice
  • Democracy
  • Economy

• I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Fun
  • Star
  • Grew

• One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Done
  • She
  • Bad

• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Played

• Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Weird

• I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Cool

• America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands.

  

  Samantha Power
  • America
  • Support
  • Security

• I don't think Hollywood will be the place that innovates great technology, but if people underestimate how they monetize content, they're sorely mistaken.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Great
  • Technology

• For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Dance

• Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Support
  • Care
  • Show

• When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • First
  • Remembered
  • Calamity

• I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Food

• Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

  

  Preston Manning
  • People
  • Society

• I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Different
  • Job
  • Rebel

• Our life is made by the death of others.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Death

• As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour

• The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.

  

  Angela Ahrendts