Anita Roddick Quotes
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
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My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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Every idea has its time.
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We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
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The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'
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I would most like to do film or TV. Possibly theatre in the future, but I'm in L.A. a lot of the time at the moment and if I was going to do theatre it would be in London.
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I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.
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John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
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I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.
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If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
