Annie Lennox Quotes
I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.
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When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.
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The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.
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Israel must decide quickly what sort of environment it wants to live in because the current model, which has some apartheid characteristics, is not compatible with Jewish principles.
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War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.
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I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
