Annie Lennox Quotes
I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and asking "What is it all about?"
Quotes to Explore
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Honest communication is a rare thing.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'
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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
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It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!
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We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.
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Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.
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Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.
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People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.
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It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.
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I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
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Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?
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I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and asking "What is it all about?"
