Quote by Vivienne Westwood
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earths treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. – Vivienne Westwood

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I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. – Vivienne Westwood

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Family
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We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records. – Vivienne Westwood

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Success
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We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great. – Vivienne Westwood

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Change
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Peoples view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point. – Laura Linney

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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. – David Suzuki

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Never believe that a few caring people cant change the world. For, indeed, thats all who ever have. – Margaret Mead

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Change is such hard work. – Billy Crystal

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