Dorfman Quotes

#1. In 1770, a British law was proposed to Parliament granting grounds for annulment if a bride used cosmetics prior to her wedding day.
- Marjorie Dorfman, The History of Make-up

Julie Klassen

#2. I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.

Ariel Dorfman

#3. Did he, like most men, possess the superpower of knowing just when we women have turned a corner, only to swoop in and fuck shit up for us all over again? As

Andi Dorfman

#4. You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

Ariel Dorfman

#5. With Indian migrants all over the world, money transfer is a big business in India.

Lloyd Dorfman

#6. We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash.

Lloyd Dorfman

#7. I think as a business it would be amazing if the euro was to collapse, but financially and economically I think that would be a bit of a tsunami for everybody to cope with.

Lloyd Dorfman

#8. I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.

Lloyd Dorfman

#9. Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

Ariel Dorfman

#10. I don't play golf, and I'm not into horse racing.

Lloyd Dorfman

#11. She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I will find myself defending both her right to struggle and our obligation to remember.

Ariel Dorfman

#12. I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

Ariel Dorfman

#13. India offers exciting business opportunities owing to the growth in corporate travel and a significant middle-class population waiting to explore the world. To begin with, Travelex is setting up eight city centre branches in metros and other major cities including tourist destinations.

Lloyd Dorfman

#14. In 2003, Travelex acquired Thomas Cook Financial Services. We only had use of the Thomas Cook name for five years, so I had to increase public awareness of Travelex to migrate all Cook operations over to it. It was a success.

Lloyd Dorfman

#15. Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London's leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National's role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.

Lloyd Dorfman

#16. Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

Ariel Dorfman

#17. Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.

Ariel Dorfman

#18. We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Ariel Dorfman

#19. I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

Ariel Dorfman

#20. I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.

Lloyd Dorfman

#21. I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

Ariel Dorfman

#22. There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Ariel Dorfman

#23. He explained that when he had gotten to Toledo, he had a meeting with himself. He said he realized he had become satisfied with being a starting pitcher in the big leagues, and with the money he was making.

H. A. Dorfman

#24. My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

Lloyd Dorfman

#25. I've always loved and enjoyed the theatre, but I have to say that none of our sponsorships have been done because I'm one of those chairmen and chief executives who goes gooey-eyed about something. They are done for a very specific marketing and commercial agenda.

Lloyd Dorfman

#26. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

Lloyd Dorfman

#27. I believe the combination of Travelex and Apax will represent a powerful force.

Lloyd Dorfman

#28. The key thing for me is to secure medium-term funding for the Roundhouse studios. It costs around £2m a year to run, but we want to grow it, and of course that will cost more.

Lloyd Dorfman

#29. We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

Ariel Dorfman

#30. The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.

Lloyd Dorfman

#31. Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business.

Lloyd Dorfman

#32. Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

Ariel Dorfman

#33. To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

Harvey Dorfman

#34. If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today's competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.

Lloyd Dorfman

#35. At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

Lloyd Dorfman

#36. I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.

Ariel Dorfman

#37. This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

Ariel Dorfman

#38. Gerardo; People can die from an excessive dose of the truth, you know.

Ariel Dorfman

#39. When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks.

Lloyd Dorfman

#40. Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.

Lloyd Dorfman

#41. Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Ariel Dorfman

#42. You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.

Ariel Dorfman

#43. Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.

Lloyd Dorfman

#44. People travel because it's a treat. For me, staying at home is a treat.

Lloyd Dorfman