Anita Roddick Quotes
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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I want to go see Somalia because I've never been there, and I feel like I'm missing out. I want to learn that heritage; I want to learn about my culture.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov
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People want to hear the gossip. They don't want to hear about the shots.
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Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.
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I like a good old thriller.
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Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.
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You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.
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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
