Annie Lennox Quotes
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
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Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.
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For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
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Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.
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In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
