Angela Ahrendts Quotes

In luxury, ubiquity will kill you - it means you're not really luxury anymore.

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• I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • World
  • Writing
  • Think

• I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Decision
  • Religion
  • Thought

• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Die
  • Worry
  • Born

• Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Experience
  • Lucky
  • Very

• Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Done
  • Day
  • Sometimes

• It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Business
  • Failure

• I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Live
  • Chicago
  • Kid

• I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Die
  • Like
  • Movies

• In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • American
  • Talking
  • China

• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Children
  • Think
  • Hungry

• Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Benefits
  • Globalization

• The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Political
  • Party
  • Hands

• As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

  

  Charles Bass
  • House

• Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • Done
  • Justice
  • Seen

• The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man. It ends, therefore, with the categorical imperative to overthrow all those conditions in which man is an abased, enslaved, abandoned, contemptible being.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Criticism

• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • World
  • Control
  • Religion

• After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distraught. But now, looking back on it, I think it was the biggest blessing. I was going into every fight thinking I have to win because I am Olympic champion and putting too much pressure on myself. I lost my hunger and stopped enjoying my taekwondo.

  

  Jade Jones
  • World
  • Thinking
  • High

• In luxury, ubiquity will kill you - it means you're not really luxury anymore.

  

  Angela Ahrendts