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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Fall
  • Hunting
  • Deer

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• 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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Food
  • Practice
  • Clear

• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • World
  • Alone
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• 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.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Myself

• One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Hard
  • Underestimate

• 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.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Fear
  • Support
  • Eyes

• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Childhood
  • Normal

• I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Pretending

• Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Spiritual
  • Commitment
  • Your

• What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

  

  Dale Dougherty
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Computers

• Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Service

• People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • True

• I have sought, but I seek it vainly,That one lost chord divine,Which came from the soul of the Organ,And entered into mine. It may be that Death's bright angelWill speak in that chord again,It may be that only in HeavenI shall hear that grand Amen.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • May
  • Soul
  • Death

• When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • World
  • Growing