Dorfman Quotes & Sayings

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress. — Ariel Dorfman

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

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

In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded as the establishment - the world's largest retailer of foreign currency. — Lloyd Dorfman

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

Gerardo; People can die from an excessive dose of the truth, you know. — Ariel Dorfman

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

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

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

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

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

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever. — Ariel Dorfman

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

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

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. — Ariel Dorfman

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need. — Ariel Dorfman

I don't play golf, and I'm not into horse racing. — Lloyd Dorfman

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off. — Lloyd Dorfman

I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby. — Lloyd Dorfman

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

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages. — Lloyd Dorfman

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

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions. — Harvey Dorfman

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. — Ariel Dorfman

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

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

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

I believe the combination of Travelex and Apax will represent a powerful force. — Lloyd Dorfman

Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business. — Lloyd Dorfman

I do have a fundamental concern about us losing control of our own destiny, and this is not just about the euro. You can expand and extend it into the whole constitutional issue. The British people have been suckered with regard to how the whole currency and constitutional issues have been sold to them. — Lloyd Dorfman

People travel because it's a treat. For me, staying at home is a treat. — Lloyd Dorfman

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

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope. — Ariel Dorfman

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world. — Ariel Dorfman

Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination. — Ariel Dorfman

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

Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the 'intelligence' that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness? — Ariel Dorfman

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters? — Lloyd Dorfman

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. — Ariel Dorfman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With Indian migrants all over the world, money transfer is a big business in India. — Lloyd Dorfman

Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy, but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness. — Ariel Dorfman

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

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

I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels. — Ariel Dorfman