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.
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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.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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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.
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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.'
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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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.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.
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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.
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.
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If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.
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Nature recharges me.
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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
