Anita Roddick Quotes

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

Anita Roddick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businesswoman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 23, 1942 - September 10, 2007

Topics

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Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

Robert Kagan

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European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.

Angus Deaton

PovertyReliefGiveAidThanMuch

I don't think Vice and BuzzFeed are legitimate news organizations.

Jeff Zucker

ThinkNewsViceLegitimate

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

Tracy Chapman

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That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.

Rob Sheffield

BloodTrueBecomeSecretCraving

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

Mona Simpson

ComputersKnowTypewriterStillMuch

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Mitch Albom

SongStoryBadDarkNobodyWhy

Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.

Jason Fuchs

FocusMeReadingProblemActing

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

David Sze

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Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Christopher Alexander

GreatEnvironmentalProblemsDesign

The question now afloat in the world respecting 'things as they are' is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society.

William Godwin

ChangeMindWorldSocietyPartyNow

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Nicolas Chamfort

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