Anita Roddick Quotes
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
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I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.
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I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,' or go back to an old, beaten path - do some smaller things that I haven't done in 15 or 20 years. Just to sort of get my feet wet, because I haven't done my own material for a couple of years - I've been doing a lot of other things.
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Hymns are the poetry of the people.
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
