Angela Ahrendts Quotes
If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
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There is too much repression and suppression in schools.
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I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.
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I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking with my mother at a hot stove when I was five. But the truth is I wanted to cook. Cooking meant being near food.
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Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.
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If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.
