Ingvar Kamprad Quotes

I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

Ingvar Kamprad

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• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Loved
  • Afraid

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reading

• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Know
  • Professional

• My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Time
  • World
  • Man

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Employment

• When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Modeling
  • Eyebrows

• I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Time
  • Business
  • Career

• For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Long
  • Dream

• I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like 'Huckleberry Finn.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Life
  • Time
  • City

• The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Up
  • Time
  • Take

• I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Time
  • Think
  • Word

• For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes.

  

  Andrea Anders
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Comedy

• With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.

  

  Allegra Huston
  • Important
  • Drama

• My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.

  

  Lesley Visser
  • World
  • Sports

• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Time
  • Dying
  • Afraid