Ingvar Kamprad Quotes
We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
