Anita Roddick Quotes

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom

• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Rock
  • Players
  • Jazz

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Parents
  • Movies
  • Easy

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Connection
  • Hide

• Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Help
  • Him
  • Allah

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • First
  • Feet
  • Three

• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Played

• Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • Know
  • Fashion

• I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Running
  • Myself
  • Him

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Marriage

• My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Mother

• When it comes to running a business and interacting with people, you need to be very transparent.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • People
  • Business
  • Running

• I take random inspiration from everywhere.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Inspiration

• 'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.

  

  O. T. Fagbenle
  • Profound

• I am not someone who's very good at looking after herself, and I am also not someone who goes on holiday very often.

  

  Jane Green
  • Good
  • Holiday

• If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

  

  Anita Roddick
  • Good
  • Business
  • History