"We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening."

“Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka.”

“I believe our nation is at a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage where vows are broken, our rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them. These constitutional violations have increased independent of whether there's been a Democrat-controlled Washington or a Republican-controlled Washington.”

“That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

“The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.”

Source : "Credit where it's due" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2006.

“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”

“And here I always thought morality was useless”

“I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.”

“At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.”

Source : "Rose McGowan On Childhood As Runaway With Drag Queens, Not Being Bi-Sexual". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2011.