Angela Ahrendts Quotes
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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Respect the burden.
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Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.
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Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is older. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.
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I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
