Annie Lennox Quotes
I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I actually watched 'Lord of the Rings' right when it came out, so maybe 2001 or 2002 or whenever that was. But I watched those movies, and I ended up loving them so much that I found every behind-the-scenes feature and every sort of 'making-of' clip they had.
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When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'
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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
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For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
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I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
