Anita Roddick Quotes

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

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• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Dinner

• A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Everyday
  • Place
  • Where

• The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Pain
  • Victory
  • Far

• Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Lying
  • Said

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Real
  • Past
  • Romantic

• When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Up
  • Country
  • Growing

• I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore – she teaches me to dance.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Dance
  • Working
  • Teaches

• You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.

  

  Olly Murs
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• I do tend to overdo everything.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Everything
  • Tend
  • Overdo

• It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Said
  • Obsession
  • Costs

• Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Children
  • May
  • Everyone

• I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Military
  • Chinese
  • Year

• When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Trust
  • Leave

• I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Christmas

• Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesemollit mores nec sinit esse feros.

  

  Ovid

• We need financial measurements for sure—but we don’t need them for their own sake. We need them for two different reasons. One is control; knowing to what extent a company is achieving its goal of making money. The other reason is probably even more important; measurements should induce the parts to do what’s good for the organization as a whole.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Goal
  • Reasons
  • Achieving

• Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Life
  • Words
  • Comforting

• Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment, a single correct idea has ever emanated from conjecture: it is right therefore, that those who are studying their profession should be aware that there is no short road to knowledge; and that observation on the diseased living, examination of the dead, and experiments upon living animals, are the only sources of true knowledge; and that inductions from these are the sole bases of legitimate theory.

  

  Astley Cooper
  • Idea
  • Theory
  • Profession

• Must one dread what others dread?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Must
  • Dread

• At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

  

  Anita Roddick