Annie Lennox Quotes
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.
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Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
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If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.
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Comme nous avons mal fait de nous laisser appeler Impressionistes.
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The merchant voiced an inarticulate protest. Glystra glared at him, 'Do you think I trust you?''Trust?' said the merchant with a puzzled expression. 'Trust? What word is that?' And he tested it several times more.
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Lasker mouthed, 'Trust him,' and Max sighed. Trust a lawyer? It flew in the face of his most cherished principles.
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The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
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When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
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I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.
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Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And not just good songs, but great songs. After a while, great songs won't do - they have to be the best. Success doesn't make it any easier. Each time I start a new record, it's a brand-new search.
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I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.
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I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.
