Quotes

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.

What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don't do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.

In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

Forget the past, and ask me what's next.

I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.

My role model was Sachin Tendulkar as a kid. I feel very proud that I have been able to follow his footsteps and become a UNICEF ambassador like him.

I am hurt that some people criticise very harshly without even realising the hardships which we go through.

I was naughty but never demanding. I never asked my parents for shoes or tracksuits. I was happy with what I had.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.

Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.

I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers.

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her.

I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.

I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

I think there is no world without theatre.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.