Annie Lennox Quotes
We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
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With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.
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Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.
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The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.
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If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.
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Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.
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If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
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We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.
