Annie Lennox Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
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Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
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The thing that's wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.
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Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
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As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'
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If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
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The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.
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I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again.
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I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
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I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.
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I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
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I see myself as a traveller.
