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If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
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Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.
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the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.
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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
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A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.
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