Angela Ahrendts Quotes
When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
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What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.
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What the banking system needs is creditors who monitor risk and cut their exposure when that risk is too high. Unlike regulators, creditors and counterparties know the details of a deal and have their own money on the line.
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When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.
