Ingvar Kamprad Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
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I am an ordinary person.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.
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Posttraumatic stress is the result of a fundamental reorganization of the central nervous system based on having experienced an actual threat of annihilation, (or seeing someone else being annihilated), which reorganizes self experience (as helpless) and the interpretation of reality (the entire world is a dangerous place).
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Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.
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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
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I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.
