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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I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
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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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A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.
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I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
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My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
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There is crisis in Europe, where Russia is the principle intriguer and player, which affects a major source of international business and flow of capital.
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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.
