Meg Wheatley Quotes
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.
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Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
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I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
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When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.
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It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I can run a good few miles. I box a little.
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I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.
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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
