180 THINKERS – Back in September ‘98, our soon to be Chairman, Alex, read a quote by Francis Ford Coppola. It went something like this, “Whenever you get into trouble, keep going, do a 180º turn. Turn the situation halfway round. Don’t look for the secure solution. Don’t pull back from the passion. [...]
180 THINKERS – As Ricky Gervais would say in his famous podcast ‘Ooooh Chimpanzee that, Monkey News’.
This little cheeky fella, the monkey not Ricky, dries out palm nuts on a rock for three days, then cracks them with a stone. Our ancestors and Karl Pilkington would be proud.
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180 THINKERS – Born in America, unto uneducated immigrant parents, I grew up most of my life in private education only to drop out of high school just three days before senior graduation, because of pipe dreams of becoming a rock star!!!
After that failed, I was: a car mechanic, a deli worker, an inventory [...]
180 THINKERS – Long before he was knighted, Bob Geldof was watching a news report about the starving people of Ethiopia. Unlike the rest of us he got off of his arse and did something about it, galvanizing the world to “give us your frigging money”. – Richard Bullock, 180 Amsterdam
180 THINKERS – Vivienne Westwood invented Punk, made it mainstream and changed the world. – Caroline Britt, 180 Amsterdam