Annie Lennox Quotes
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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Radio is for driving.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
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I'm a big fan of my father.
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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
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I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
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I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
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We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.
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At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.
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Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.
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I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment.
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I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school There was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him – and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.
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Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.
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I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.
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There is nothing that you can do without working.
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It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
