Quotes
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Laurence Graff
"When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design." --
Source : "British businessman". Interview with Godfrey Barker, Evening Standard's ES Magazine, December 17, 2007.
Laurence Graff
#Opportunity Quotes
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“I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.”
“I'm a physical receiver, yet I can run and move like someone who is 5-8 or 5-9.”
“The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.”
“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
“I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!”
“Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?”
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
Source : Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press
“The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.”
