Annie Lennox Quotes
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
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One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.
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In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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We should have more invention.
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Sometimes, discomfort is very uncomfortable. Anybody can get occasionally tired of it, and then it can change fast, where it's comfort that disturbs you.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.
