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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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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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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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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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.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.
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You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.
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It was so surreal, having my parents hear the President and First Lady saying to me, 'Good to see you again! We're so proud of you. We watched you on the Grammys and were like, 'That's our girl!'
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Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.
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I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
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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.
