Avon Quotes

• As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear
  Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,
  Into main ocean they, this deed accursed
  An emblem yields to friends and enemies
  How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified
  By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

  William Wordsworth

  Friendship, Teacher, Truth

  "Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)". Part II, No. 17. "The Ecclesiastical sonnets of William Wordsworth", edited by Abbie Findlay Potts, archive.org. 1922.

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• The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them.

  Andrea Jung

  Business, Women, Home

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• Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.

  Andrea Jung

  Direct Selling, Years, Marketing

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• Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

  Andrea Jung

  Senior, Unique, Friendly

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• Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were
  To see thee in our water yet appear.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Swans, Sight

  'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

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• My mom used to sell Avon when my mom was a kid for about three years, and so it was like the first make up I saw. And when I first found out about makeup it was Avon makeup and I remember putting my mom's red lipstick on my cheeks and thinking that is where it went, and that was Avon. So it's weird how your life turns out and how things come round, and it is brilliant.

  Gemma Arterton

  Mom, Kids, Makeup

  "Female Bond-ing". Interview with Bonnie Laufer-Krebs, quantumofsolace.tribute.ca.

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• I’m assuming those are Daimons. (Susan) No, they’re Avon ladies. (Ravyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Assuming

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• We have always had dogs, and they have faithfully performed many valuable services for us, such as: 1. Peeing on everything. 2. When we're driving in our car, alerting us that we have passed another dog by barking real loud in our ears for the next 114 miles. 3. Trying to kill the Avon lady.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Real, Car

  Dave Barry (1995). “Homes and Other Black Holes”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Opportunity, Boston, Years

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

  Ashley Greene

  Dating, Abuse, Foundation

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was approached by Avon which took me by surprise, cause I thought "why me?" I thought it would be Olga, but they wanted me to be the face of their fragrance and since filming Bond I have recorded an ad that looks great and obviously the stills. It's brilliant because I never thought I would get to do anything like that and it is a lovely opportunity.

  Gemma Arterton

  Opportunity, Lovely, Faces

  "Female Bond-ing". Interview with Bonnie Laufer-Krebs, quantumofsolace.tribute.ca.

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• China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.

  Andrea Jung

  Opportunity, Small Villages, Earning

  "Selling Beauty on a Global Scale". Interview with J. Alex Tarquinio, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2008.

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• I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.

  Fergie

  Eye, Thinking, Wrinkles

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• I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.

  Mira Grant

  Princess, Smell, Skins

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• It is an honor to be with thousands of leaders from around the world who are united in their mission to eradicate violence against women. Avon is proud to share their commitment to this goal. We are honored to be a leading supporter of the 2nd World Conference of Women's Shelters, and are grateful for the work that all of you do day in and day out to ensure that women across the world can find ways to live their lives free of violence.

  Andrea Jung

  Grateful, Commitment, Goal

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• In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Army, Priorities

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield.

  Bill Bryson

  Father, Son, Done

  Bill Bryson (1990). “The Mother Tongue”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Country, Silly

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• Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.

  Mike Patton

  Jealous, Thinking, Focus

  Guitar Magazine, September 1992.

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• Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Son, Player, Greatness

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• Le temps qui change les e"  tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde  e d'eux. Although time changes people, it cannot change the image we have already made of them.

  Marcel Proust

  People, Made

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• I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.

  Judi Dench

  Design, Theatre, Want

  "Judi Dench Press Conference at the 2004 Taormina BNL Filmfest". www.filmscouts.com. 2004.

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• Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.

  John Aubrey

  Father, Exercise, Boys

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• I finally found the product that helps mend my damaged hair and prevent breakage. Avon's Advance Techniques Damage Repair 3D Rescue Leave-In Treatment makes it look and feel healthier.

  Fergie

  Hair, Technique, Looks

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