Gordon Roddick Quotes

“Living in a Kayapó village is a magical experience.”

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“My view at the time was that we needed to have a relatively easy process in which the Indians could be fully involved and would be a high-volume range in The Body Shop’s ‘Trade Not Aid’ bracket.”

AdventureTravelContemplationAttributed No SourceFair TradeThe Body ShopKayapóTrade Not Aid

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“I loved the Kayapó language, a language group called 'Ji'. Their word for no was ‘kati’, and yes was ‘na’.”

LifeTruthLanguageAdventureTravelReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceKayapó

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“Community Trade. Ask tough, honest questions, get the changes you need and get behind them.”

LifeTruthHealthReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceWellbeing

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“Kayapó women – always in pairs or more. If you asked for their name – their friend would always reply to voice her name.”

LifeTruthAdventureTravelReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceKayapó

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“The last thing we wanted to say was, “I told you so,” but it may be.”

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“Kayapó. In muddy villages, everyone is smiling everywhere all the time, very kind, very unpretentious.”

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“It’s time to stop being polite.”

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“Shoving uncomfortable issues merely hardens resistance to change.”

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“Talk honestly.”

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“Mongolia is a fascinating country; visit if you can. It is one of the world's last frontiers with space and landscape that defies definition.”

LifeTruthMemoriesAdventureTravelReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceMongolia

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“I have been lucky to see many parts of the world denied to others. A special trip was one I made to Mongolia. It is a remarkable and unusual country. Do get there before it changes.”

LifeTruthMemoriesAdventureTravelReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceMongolia

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“A girl for whom laughter is her first tune.”

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“On this Mongolian adventure, I am alone in a double tent, which I thought would be a glorious luxury, but I am just messy.”

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“Mongolia, I have never been anywhere quite like it. The people are wild, and the animals are tame. The whole country is fuelled by passion.”

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“Mongolia, we set up camp in the fading light and the extraordinary beauty of this lake and this country.”

LifeTruthMemoriesBeautyAdventureTravelReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceMongolia

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“Everyone has their tale.”

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“If you went out for a pee at night, the reindeer came running over to drink your pee. Apparently, there are minerals in it they need and don’t have.”

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“We see the Tsaatan encampment of tepees in the far distance, sitting in a vast treeless plain surrounded by rolling hills and backdropped by high snow-capped mountains. We pause for a while to take in this spectacle. It took my breath away, and for a moment, everything was gone except the here and now.”

LifeTruthNatureMemoriesAdventureTravelReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceMongolia

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“Anthem for postprandial. The hands That have drawn The feast Now draw thin Red blood In separate sign And riddle Out a wither In a last few grains Of whimpered self To deny Our dwarfing”

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“How can we live without fear in a world of good?”

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“Polo has all the qualities that a nearly middle-aged man would need. Lots of adrenalin, dangerous and, contrary to my expectations, bright and filled with shenanigans and friendships.”

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“The polo ball was thrown in, the game exploded, and so did my sanity.”

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“Polo: drama at its best!”

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“Terry Hanlon was no ordinary man. He was an extravagantly wild and irrepressible sportsman. Terry was a poet, philosopher and artist. He had anarchy in his soul. He disregarded the rules, and we were all jealous of his freedom and ability to make us laugh and sometimes cry.”

LifeTruthFriendshipReflectionContemplationAnarchyAttributed No SourceSportPoloTerry Hanlon

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“No one was safe from Terry Hanlon's wit and humour. He was much loved by polo players all over the world.”

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“Pisswits.”

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“I don’t think that way.”

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“I guess if I am being honest, I was better at playing second fiddle – my life seems to have borne that out – with occasional bursts of first fiddle (The Big Issue, the Amazon, Riding across the Gran Chaco) – a slightly second-rate Ranulph Fiennes or even Pen Hadow. Nothing I have ever done had the benefit of planning – more based on ignorance than risk.”

LifeTruthAdventureReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopAnita Roddick

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“This condition of human loneliness is temporarily obliterated (erased) in secrets inadmissible.”

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“Anita would never say no to anybody’s dreams.”

LifePhilosophyTruthDreamsReflectionAttributed No Source1976The Body ShopAnita RoddickWisdom Contemplation

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“It was always a question of being present in mind and consciousness – I liked that Anita constantly challenged.”

LifeTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceAnita Roddick

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“All are equal – what incredible, intelligent bullshit.”

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“We showed that breaking the rules could lift your head above the mist, the fog and clouds of incomprehension. There was sunshine and laughter up there – anything, everything was possible!”

LifeTruthBusinessReflectionBraveryEntrepreneurshipContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopAnita Roddick

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“Terrible sadness; I have lost two good years of my children. I miss those childish things around the house, tripping up over torn teddies and being unable to find my keys.”

LifeTruthFamilySadnessReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source1976

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“Sometimes, silence drops around like an uninvited guest.”

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“Constantly, the thought is, will I be brave enough? So far, I have not risen to that challenge in my personal or public life. I was good enough to give shape but not detail to the opportunity I had in business.”

LifeTruthBusinessReflectionBraveryContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body ShopAnita Roddick

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“I had big fun and big opportunities; we pulled out the extensions on business and made it do more for life.”

LifeTruthBusinessReflectionBraveryContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body Shop2003

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“We stretched the possibilities to the evident delight of others, who took my similar cries or used the business tool to move to fresh ground that stirred their own passions (or maybe demons), that gave their workforce a feeling of vitality and difference beyond 'let's turn up for next week's pay cheque'.”

LifeTruthPassionBusinessReflectionBraveryContemplationAttributed No SourceThe Body Shop2005

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“I am proud of many parts of that. Much of it we did because we did not know that it was not part of the programme and that did not matter, but it did matter.”

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“Ken Saro-Wiwa was one of the warmest and most courageous men I know.”

LifeTruthReflectionActivismContemplationAttributed No SourceKen Saro WiwaOgoni

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“Perhaps this is how life translates, and we all bumble through taking opportunistic advantage, passing off the accidental as the creative plan, the deliberate expression of a sometimes ordered intelligence.”

LifeTruthOpportunityReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceSpontaneity

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“The Angola 3: targeted, framed, isolated.”

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“People from all over the world are working together to make the world a better place, now more than ever.”

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“The threat is more important than the actuality.”

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“The objective is not to let the bastards get away with it.”

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“The Angola 3. Another prisoner confessed to the killing, and when Robert and his fellow detainee were questioned and told to shut up. The judge then ordered them to be gagged with duck tape and bound. All this happened in front of a jury who sat there aghast.”

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“Be patient. Don’t be patient.”

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“The Angola 3. Held in Solitary confinement for 40+ years each. The Closed Cell Restriction (CCR) block, where Herman and Albert were imprisioned, housed solitary cases on two tiers, with around 13 cells per tier. The cells were no more than nine by six feet, and prisoners were confined 23 hours a day, only getting out for a shower or solo exercise in the yard. Imagine, for a minute, being forced to live in your bathroom for the rest of your life.”

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“Frame it up fact by fact. Build it up to show the injustice.”

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