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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Feminist
Organizational Founder
Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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Bloody
Opened
Library
Quiet
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Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.
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Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.
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The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.
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If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.
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The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.
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The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.
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the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
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The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.
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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 market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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Mess with nature and it will mess right back.
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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
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