Angela Ahrendts Quotes
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
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I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
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People talk about me, and that's good, but a lot of it has been down to how my team-mates have supported me.
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First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.
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Online, offline, it's gotta be the same.
