Stuart Rose Quotes

I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.

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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Jim Bishop

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If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Johannes Tauler

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I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.

John Fusco

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I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured.

Stellan Skarsgard

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In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.

Logan Green

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The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

Josh Fox

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The Fed should not be responding to the ups and downs of the markets, and it is certainly not our policy to do so. But when there are significant financial developments, it's incumbent on us to ask ourselves what is causing them.

Janet Yellen

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We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

Dixie Lee Ray

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When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very humbling.

Boy George

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Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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I would never quit comedy to make money. I've been doing it, like, 30 years. I still love it. That's my life.

Leslie Jones

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After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.

Kimbal Musk

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